Grind Quotes - Page 5

• Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.

  Mark Hoppus

  Couple, Struggle, Opportunity

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.

  Rory Vaden

  Falling In Love, Attitude, Impact

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• We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Selfish, Criticism, Cases

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “Fireside chats”, Penguin Group USA

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• Rise and grind... the money ain't gonna wait for you while you sleep son.

  Donnell Rawlings

  Sleep, Son, Waiting

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• I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.

  Arnold Newman

  Negative, Care, Matter

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• Television is my home. It's a special breed of person that can do nine months on and three months off, with 22 episodes of one-hour shows. It's very hard work. It can be a grind. It's not a grind for me. I relish in that.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Hard Work, Home, Special

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks THE LYING GAME, HAUNTED HIGH, and the BUFFY Remake". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 28, 2011.

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• Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be thrown into it, where you're going to sink or swim. It's amazing how self-correcting and how clarifying a good, hard, shitty job can be. Because at the end of the day, any profession I've seen anybody in, when you peer behind the curtains of Oh, wouldn't that be a great job? Wow, what an amazing thing, a philanthropic endeavor! it really just comes down to It's a f**king grind.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Strong, Kings, Jobs

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• Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1650, Manonmani Publishers

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• With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Independent, People, Old Fashioned

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It's a lot of people that's tried to stop my grind, there's been a lot of hate, but even more love.

  Ace Hood

  Hate, People

  Source: djbooth.net

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• When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.

  Deepak Chopra

  Regret, Stress, Exercise

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• You know, the elites always want to shame the poor - right? - and everyone else. I mean, the fact is, this economy is based on 70 percent of the people driving consumer demand. If people do not purchase goods and services, this economy will grind to recession. And that is why, if you are going to do a tax cut, it ought to really be aimed at low-income and middle-income people.

  Keith Ellison

  Mean, Cutting, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind being on Broadway. The people that do that are probably the hardest working people. I shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of hard work that goes on in film and television, as well. That consistency of the grind of eight shows a week - I feel ready to go back to it now after having a bit of a break. I like to have the chance to jump between different art forms, whether it be theatre, film, TV, music. It's really wonderful to have opportunities in different arenas.

  Reeve Carney

  Art, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess that's valuable in some sense. But songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.

  Richard Schiff

  Morning, Work Out, Discipline

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• Just out here workin' hard and doin' what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.

  Pitbull

  Opportunity, Hustle, New Opportunity

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I'm not an L.A. guy. I don't take meetings - you know what I mean? I don't really know how to interact very well with people in L.A. because everybody's got an agenda and everybody's like, "What do you do?" "Where are you going?" Or it's like, "What do you know?" And I'm not on a grind - I was there to make music and to meet people but I wasn't hustling for anything.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Mean, People, Guy

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.

  Toni Morrison

  Evil, Seductive, Needs

  Source: wordmag.com

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• I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Britain, Has Beens

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• I just continue to grind on my own. You can't deny good music at the end of the day.

  Donnis

  The End Of The Day, Deny, Ends

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I've always had good friends and people know that I've got no ax to grind.

  George Hamilton

  Good Friend, People, Knows

  "Tanned ambitions: Hamilton reflects on Hollywood career and new film 'The Congressman'". Interview with Eric Althoff, www.washingtontimes.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in the room with all these smart people, and you're all well-read and well-educated and the humor is really erudite. And then over the course of the year, after the production schedule grinds you down, it is just so mean and stupid.

  Maria Semple

  Smart, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• You look at Ray Lewis, you look at Brett Favre. I know it's different positions, but you think about the mental mindset it takes to continue to grind and play at a high level. Those are the guys that I look at that motivate me.

  Adrian Peterson

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite occupation of people who serve special interests, who have axes to grind, and public careers to advance. It is a game in which benefits are bestowed according to political skill and connection, rather than merit.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Struggle, Axes, Games

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• Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Giving, Choices

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