Grind Quotes - Page 7

• The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.

  Bill Nye

  People, Shapes, Might

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• There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

  Yelawolf

  Real, Hip Hop, Alabama

  Source: www.rapireland.com

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• Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

  Glen Hirshberg

  Dream, Jobs, Real

  "INTERVIEW: Glen Hirshberg, Author of MOTHERLESS CHILD". Interview with Kristin Centorcelli, www.sfsignal.com. June 2, 2014.

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• My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Hard Work, Successful, Careers

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

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• Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

  Elspeth Huxley

  Heart, Mind, Stones

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• Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

  Ted Dexter

  Cricket, Endless

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• When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantle your cause, to exploit what you lack and expose all your flaws. But when every layer of your being is gone, and it seems there's no point anymore to go on; just remember one thing, at the end of the day, when you have self-respect they can't take that away.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Self, The End Of The Day

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• Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

  Michael Nesmith

  Axes, Publicity, Interviews

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  Morning, Fishing, Opposites

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• Grind the faces of the poor.

  Isaiah

  Poverty, Faces, Poor

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• When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

  Edward Norton

  Scuba, Stuff, Surf

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

  Cato the Younger

  Husband, Blessed, Lust

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• Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

  Glen Hirshberg

  Dream, Sleep, Distracted

  "INTERVIEW: Glen Hirshberg, Author of MOTHERLESS CHILD". Interview with Kristin Centorcelli, www.sfsignal.com. June 2, 2014.

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• New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

  Kurt Braunohler

  New York, Down And, Spit

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• For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.  But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see.  I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go".

  May Sarton

  Self, Long, Machines

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• America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spring, Real, America

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• Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.

  Graham Hancock

  People, Our Society, Society Today

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• There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, Fear, Thinking

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• There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.

  Perry Marshall

  Giving Up, Lying, Two

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• If it's one thing I know well is how to get my grind on.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Wells, Knows, One Thing

  Song: Burn Sumthin, Album: Show and Prove

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• Days when you just don't have it, you don't mail it in, you don't pack it in, you give it everything you've got. You grind it out, I don't care what kind of game you have, you somehow try and find a way to get it done ... That's part of my attitude and belief, that you should always have the switch on. You can't turn it on and off.

  Tiger Woods

  Attitude, Games, Giving

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• Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

  Horace

  Corn, Eating, Reason

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Satires, I. 1. 45, 1922.

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• Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

  Sarah Doudney

  Autumn, Past, Wind

  Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

  David Mamet

  Stress, Dust, Focus

  David Mamet (2009). “Faustus”, p.16, Vintage

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• A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Determination, Views

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 59, 1915.

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