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- Nov 07, 2020
Grinding Quotes
The unglamorous, repeated effort behind real progress.
These grinding quotes describe the long, repetitive effort behind music careers and coaching jobs, where progress comes slowly and rarely feels finished. See our Effort quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to keep grabbing, keep reaching, keep crawling, keep grinding and excelling until I can go no higher.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you buy a company that's been on its butt you raise a lot of money, you instantly put new management in place, but that's the end of the glory for three to five years, grinding it out one day after the other.
- Day
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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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been grinding at music for over a decade now. Since I was 18, I decided that this is what I wanted to do. It's not an easy thing. When you start getting 25, 26, people are like, 'Oh you're a musician huh? That's what you're gonna do? When are you going to get a real job?' I never gave up.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.
- Bring
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- Nov 07, 2020
A no deal Brexit could bring Britain to a grinding halt and threaten the wellbeing of our country.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At this point, I'm just grinding through it, trying to establish strikes in the zone with my pitches, using some information the opposition gives me, and kind of moving forward in that regard.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.
- Cow
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- Nov 07, 2020