Grind Quotes - Page 7

• Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

  Kathleen Norris

  Events, Attention, Pay

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• What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

  Sam Altman

  Mean, Years, Long

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• Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Cutting, History

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Dream, Self Esteem

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.464, Ballantine Books

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• Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Science, Understanding, Nuclear

  Kenneth E. Boulding (2017). “Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms”, p.149, Routledge

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• If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.19, Harvard University Press

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• One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.

  Louis Agassiz

  God, Science, Age

  Louis Agassiz (1876). “Geological Sketches”

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• Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Progress, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.257, Oxford University Press

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• Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

  Philip James Bailey

  Thinking, Self, Space

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.96

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• In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you.

  Janet McKenzie Hill

  Morning, Queens, Disappointment

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• It is about what you do when nobody is watching. Can you always stay on your grind, or are you only a star when the lights are on you and everybody is watching?

  Ian Warner

  Stars, Athlete, Light

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• But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Not the man who finds a grain of new and precious quality but to him who sows it, reaps it, grinds it and feeds the world on it.

  Francis Darwin

  Science, Men, Ideas

  Eugenics Review, Apr. 1914

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• When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Greatness, Erosion

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Party, Together, Machines

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• When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Writing, Views

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• If it's one thing I know well is how to get my grind on.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Wells, Knows, One Thing

  Song: Burn Sumthin, Album: Show and Prove

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• The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: "...her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Mistake, Book, Learning

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• Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

  Thomas Huxley

  Work, Data, May

  "Geological Reform". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 25, 1869.

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• He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rocks, Hands, Magic

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.205

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• I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.

  Russ Rose

  Volleyball, Trying, Bars

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• No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds up on Miley.' They're only talking about the one that bent over. So, obviously there's a double standard.

  Miley Cyrus

  Men, Talking, Robins

  "Miley Cyrus' 'Rolling Stone' Cover Shoot". www.rollingstone.com. September 24, 2013.

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• As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

  Alexei Sayle

  Trying, Comic, Ifs

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• People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.

  Scott Eastwood

  People, My Own

  "Scott Eastwood Revealed" by Priya Rao, www.townandcountrymag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I think there is a mainstream media. CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are mainstream media. And I think it's just essentially to make the point that we are largely in the center without particular axes to grind, without ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage, at least certainly not on purpose.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Nbc, Axes

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• Cause I'm on set, make it work, break even on 9 to 5's. Cigarettes and lotto tickets, tryna keep that grind alive

  Drake

  Break Even, Smoking, Alive

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