Hustle Quotes - Page 5

• I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.

  Annie Proulx

  Atmosphere, Suffering, Viruses

  "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". Book by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 1999.

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• Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dog, Prayer, Children

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• Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he looks vaguely like a dark wizard, except that his pale skinny legs are visible, and his arms hug plastic bags. I can see the back of Lacey's legs beneath her dress, her calves tight in midstride. I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

  John Green

  Running, Dark, Wind

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• Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

  Malcolm X

  School, Ghetto, Cities

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.125, Ballantine Books

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• ...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

  Seth Godin

  Doors, Humanity, Our Society

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.89, Penguin

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• As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

  John Ridley

  Vegas, Coping Mechanisms, Shadow

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've seen people who don't have deals get features from people that labels can't even get features from, because you gotta show face and be in-tune with these guys who still have that independent mind set as far how you hustle yourself. Because they only really care at the end of the day about the dollas.

  Kid Ink

  Independent, People, Guy

  Source: bestfan.com

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• The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

  Norman Douglas

  Age, Spirit

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• I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

  Kumar Pallana

  Hustle And Bustle, Long, People

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.376, Penguin

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• I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

  David O. Russell

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a positive story. I know people who don't do that, and there's a heavy energy around them. So I guess there's that kind of hustling.

  David O. Russell

  People, Energy, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Leadership, People, Want

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• Maybe I'm biased because I'm from there. It's close enough to New York but it's not swallowed up by New York's hustle and bustle. Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources but it's not too over the top.

  Kurt Vile

  People, Busy, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I had to collaborate with anybody on a song, I would pick Kendrick Lamar because he is so dope as an artist and I love his hustle and his passion. He is fearless and the way he comes to the music is like we share the same passion for what we do and with somebody from the West. In my opinion that would be a great collaboration.

  Adrian Marcel

  Song, Passion, Dope

  Source: thesource.com

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• I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

  Rick Ross

  Fun, Writing, Mean

  "13 Questions With Rick Ross". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.

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• I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small.

  Inbar Lavi

  Silly, Air, Views

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm not an L.A. guy. I don't take meetings - you know what I mean? I don't really know how to interact very well with people in L.A. because everybody's got an agenda and everybody's like, "What do you do?" "Where are you going?" Or it's like, "What do you know?" And I'm not on a grind - I was there to make music and to meet people but I wasn't hustling for anything.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Mean, People, Guy

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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• I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

  Pusha T

  Men, Perspective, Mind

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.

  Boots Riley

  Rap, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Passion, Games

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• People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• I've noticed that as someone who has done music and creative things in Washington state and Portland, to kind of toot your own horn, or admit, "I'm going for it. I'm hustling," is not exactly the norm. Which is weird, because you go to New York, or LA, or anywhere else, you've got to be gunning for it - and you should be - you're part of a fast-moving stream of other people who are really ambitious. People move here to work less. So, to say that you're hustling all the time, and going for it, is kind of a little bit against the grain here.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Moving, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of course, that's what an artist does," but there ain't too many artists around anymore. I see a lot of people who, if they thought they wouldn't profit, would find an easier hustle. It's a racket now, like everything else, but we're in a capitalistic country - everything's a racket. Take what you can. I think the difference between that line of thinking and me is obvious.

  Del tha Funkee Homosapien

  Country, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Heart, Impossible

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