- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Churning Quotes
The grind of producing more, faster.
These quotes describe churning as a pace of relentless production, whether it's business schools shaping graduates into investment bankers or a musician churning out an album every year. Several capture the exhaustion that comes with that speed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my churning stomach while dealing with the second.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an assistant, you are grinding it out and churning out work like there are not enough hours in the day, really. As a head coach, you are doing similar.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition in gospel, it's like churning butter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper rapids of the Niagara river.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.
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- Nov 07, 2020