Knocking Quotes - Page 7

• There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Powerful, Magic

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• You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.

  Chris Copeland

  Fall, Three, Balls

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Some guys make their careers off one horse; kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for me I'm trying to get better and study. That means taking out new horses. It's a life study. When I've finished a horse, I turn him out and basically stop riding him, except taking him to the occasional branding so I can enjoy him.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Mean, Careers

  Source: www.americancowboy.com

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• If you've been taught to keep every part of you to yourself, don't expect people to come knocking on your door to run their hands over the choice parts-either for your pleasure or theirs.

  Perry Brass

  Running, Doors, Hands

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.31, Perry Brass

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• I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Running, Country

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• I'm finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird's eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Hard Work, Eye, Simple

  "Stephen Covey Interviews Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus". Interview with Stephen Covey, socialbusinesspedia.com. November 1, 2016.

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• I remember performing in Russia when I was twenty, and I stayed at this hotel with 3000 rooms. There were sailors knocking on my room door, wanting to barter stuffed animals with Marlboros that I had been instructed to bring!

  Anne Akiko Meyers

  Animal, Russia, Doors

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.

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• Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

  Christian Bale

  Reality, Interesting, Add

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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• If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.

  Paula Deen

  Eye, Opportunity, Ideas

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• When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

  Josh Fox

  Doors, People, Focus

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Forever, Trying

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

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• I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

  Ariel Pink

  Doors, Years, I've Learned

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles is in fact a constructive effort to understand unity, we are able to revise our view of the situation, moving from reprimand and prohibition to the intelligent channeling of his efforts and the fostering of discovery.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Moving, Flower, Intelligent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.

  Denny Hamlin

  Opportunity, Doors, Answers

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• I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

  Charles Kuralt

  People, Romance, Lucky

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• The day will come when those knocking at the door will see it open; those who ask will receive; those who weep will be consoled.

  Paulo Coelho

  Doors, Asks

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• Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Men, Opportunity, Doors

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• Robert Louis Stevenson, one evening, stood transfixed at his nursery window watching the lamplighter in the street. When his nanny asked the boy what he was doing he replied: 'I'm watching the man knocking holes in the darkness.' We live in a universe made dark by sin. Let's knock holes in the darkness.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Dark, Boys, Men

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• Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pride, Long, Temptation

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• Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in...We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy.

  Al Capone

  America, Healthy, Mind

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• I'm not not looking for a girlfriend - but I'm not particularly looking for a girlfriend, either. I'm not knocking having a relationship; at the end of the day, you want to share with someone. But I just look at it as, I have the rest of my life to do that. I'm not in any rush.

  Chace Crawford

  Girlfriend, The End Of The Day, Looks

  "Chace Crawford Leads People's Hottest Bachelor List" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I got to go to New York Comic-Con. I've never been and I've heard it's crazy, so I'd love to see it. To be quite honest, I'd like for people to want us to be there, too. I'm hoping. I'm knocking on wood, so we'll see.

  Steven Yeun

  New York, Crazy, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Knees, Tests, Scared

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.

  Bill Ayers

  Summer, Jobs, War

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.

  Chipper Jones

  Baseball, Thinking, Earth

  Source: espn.go.com

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