Grind Quotes - Page 6

• There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

  Yelawolf

  Real, Hip Hop, Alabama

  Source: www.rapireland.com

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• The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.

  Bill Nye

  People, Shapes, Might

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• Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

  Cato the Younger

  Husband, Blessed, Lust

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• Living in the rural South, you sometimes feel trapped, like you don't have any options. It grinds people down, and of course it leads to substance abuse. I see it all around me. So many people in my family, probably more than 50 percent, have had substance abuse problems, either currently or in the past. It's so personal and immediate to me.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Past, People, Abuse

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Past, Gold

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.195, Anchor

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• Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.

  Herman Melville

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Political

  Herman Melville (2012). “The Encantadas and Other Stories”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Wife, Greed

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

  Jon Tester

  Mom, Hands, Meat

  "What I've Learned: Senator Jon Tester (D, Mont.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Precious Possessions, Speak, Environment

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• Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when its that way.

  Megyn Price

  Daughter, Running, Race

  "Rules Of Engagement‘s Megyn Price Is A Triathlete". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Coffee, Fall, Black

  "Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within". Book by Natalie Goldberg, 1986.

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• I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

  Dora Russell

  Creative, Hatred, Machines

  Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”

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• I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

  Rick Ross

  Fun, Writing, Mean

  "13 Questions With Rick Ross". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.

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• You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun.

  Kirko Bangz

  Being Yourself, Fun, Work Out

  Source: msdramatv.com

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• It just inspires me to release an album and know that I can work on a core fanbase. The grind: Just make good music and it translates.

  Kid Ink

  Inspire, Albums, Release

  Source: theboombox.com

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• We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.

  Richard Chandler

  Fall, Emotional, Trying

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• Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner. If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

  John Landy

  Winning, Play, Competition

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• The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.

  Thomas Vanek

  Fun, Nhl, Games

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• America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spring, Real, America

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• For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.  But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see.  I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go".

  May Sarton

  Self, Long, Machines

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• New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

  Kurt Braunohler

  New York, Down And, Spit

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• Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

  Glen Hirshberg

  Dream, Sleep, Distracted

  "INTERVIEW: Glen Hirshberg, Author of MOTHERLESS CHILD". Interview with Kristin Centorcelli, www.sfsignal.com. June 2, 2014.

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• Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Work Out, Secret, Way

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

  Edward Norton

  Scuba, Stuff, Surf

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Grind the faces of the poor.

  Isaiah

  Poverty, Faces, Poor

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