Grind Quotes - Page 14

• Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Past, Water, Mills

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• Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, School, Mean

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

  Warren Ellis

  Dream, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Commitment, Dmt

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• Marathon training doesn't have to be a grind. By running for about 30 minutes two times a week, and by gradually increasing the length of a third weekly run-the long run-anyone can finish a marathon.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Two, Long

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• The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thug, Careers, Political

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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