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- Nov 07, 2020
Hammering Quotes
Quotes on hammering away at ideas, arguments, and effort.
These hammering quotes use the word to describe persistent Effort, whether it's hammering an argument home in political debate or hammering every world-building detail into a story. A few lines caution against overdoing it and losing mystery or boldness.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Graham
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was used to football supporters hammering me and I thought my name was Graham Potter-Boo at one point.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
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- Nov 07, 2020