Rough Quotes - Page 17

• It's easy to be a good person when things are going well. We try to find people that will rise up when things are not going well. When we build a team, it's not just how is this person going to be when things are good... when things are rough... then who are you?

  Bob Myers

  Team, People, Trying

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• It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.

  Ida B. Wells

  Responsibility, Goal, African American

  Source: evekathygean.wordpress.com

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• It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.

  Takashi Miike

  Wise, Fun, Thinking

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.

  Anthony Mackie

  Country, Military, Believe

  Source: collider.com

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• The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.

  Richard Cecil

  Men, Mind, Trying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• I'm a good man with a good heart
  had a tough time, got a rough start
  But I finally learned to let it go.

  John Mayer

  Heart, Men, Tough Times

  Song: Shadow Days, Album: Born and Raised, 2012

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• My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

  Mother Jones

  Teacher, Teaching, Diamond In The Rough

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• What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, What If, Rust

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.18, Ravenio Books

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• Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Pain, Eye

  Oscar Wilde (1909). “De profundus”

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• I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

  Bill Watterson

  Order, Editors, Ideas

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• In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

  Erich Hartmann

  Flying, Use, Fancy

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• Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, if possible, my ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude I could best utilize the performance of my aircraft. Combat flying is based on the slashing attack and rough maneuvering.

  Erich Hartmann

  Break Off, Flying, Enemy

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• Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Anger, Water, Benefits

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• The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

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• Rashly,
  And praised be rashness for it--let us know,
  Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
  When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
  There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
  Rough-hew them how we will

  William Shakespeare

  Plot, Shapes, Divinity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• We're like socks. You can put us through a rough wash once, but you'll never use us again.

  Hannibal

  Use, Sock

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• It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.

  Tulku Thondup

  Life Changing, Sight, Self

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• I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.

  Francois Fenelon

  Death, Humility, Hands

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• The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me.' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.

  Hank Williams III

  Country, Military, Kids

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• Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.

  Chris Wyse

  Song, Inspiration, Missing

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• I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

  Jack Kirby

  Fighting, Odds, Ducks

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, People, Drug

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough background. But 50's early success was so much fueled on the story and where he came from. With Jay-Z, I feel he has a more natural gift for language and for music itself. 50 really had to study and work at it much harder.

  Robert Greene

  Stories, Natural Gifts, Study

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• I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they'd be filled with scorn and hatred. After all, I can read their rough work without turning on them like a wildebeest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Worry, People, Hatred

  "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

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• There are jokes I know I want to tell, and there's sort of a rough order, but usually I try to change it up every show, to improvise and talk with the audience. I think when you tell jokes, if you're not careful, you can end up telling the whole list of jokes and then that's it. And that can get a little boring.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Order, Trying

  Source: www.isthmus.com

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