Digging Quotes - Page 10

• The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

  William J. Clinton

  Finding Yourself, Firsts, Quitting

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• I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Sick, Gold, Spots

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

  Mark Twain

  World, Banquets, Weariness

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Weed, Roots, Feet

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• It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.

  Seth Klarman

  Sound, Information, Investment

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• In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.

  Clay Guida

  Sports, Heart, Thinking

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• I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Night, Eight, Phones

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.

  Jean Chretien

  Smart, Thinking, Digging A Hole

  "Straight from the Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.

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• Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.

  Alexander Elder

  Successful, Thinking, Ice

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• The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

  Nick Bostrom

  Library, Research, Gone

  "Nick Bostrom on the Future, Transhumanism and the End of the World". Interview with Jonathan McCalmont, ieet.org. January 22, 2007.

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• Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.

  Bertrand Tavernier

  Men, Way, Firsts

  "Ingmar Bergman, Master Filmmaker, Dies at 89" by Mervyn Rothstein, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2007.

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• If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

  Russell Simmons

  Wall, Break Through, Bricks

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• I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never heard of it when I started at a rather tender age; I was simply awed by dinosaurs. I thought paleontologists spent their lives digging up bones and putting them together, never venturing beyond the momentous issue of what connects to what. Then I discovered evolutionary theory. Ever since then, the duality of natural history-richness in particularities and potential union in underlying explanation-has propelled me.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Issues, Important, Atheism

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• Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Dark, Thinking, Order

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1935). “Spring Came on Forever”, p.251, U of Nebraska Press

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• [On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Mother, Children, Father

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• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Lying, Team, Party

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• The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

  Richard Posner

  Light, Punishment, Fake

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• The prayers you perform, the duties you do, the charity and love you give is equal to just one drop. But if you use that one drop, continue to do your duty, and keep digging within, then the spring of Allah's grace and His qualities will flow in abundance.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Prayer, Spring, Love You

  "Sheikh and Disciple". Book by Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, 1983.

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• When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.

  L. Todd Rose

  Strong, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

  Will Rogers

  Trying, Holes, Ifs

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• History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

  Wallace Stegner

  Reason Why, Novelty, Bent

  Wallace Stegner (2008). “The Twilight of Self Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America”

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• I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize.

  Shai Agassi

  Country, Israel, Land

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• Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Self Confidence, Library

  Donalyn Miller, Susan Kelley (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.73, John Wiley & Sons

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• On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Horse, Kindness, Gay

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• I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.

  Dennis Miller

  Nice, House, Littles

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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