Steady Quotes - Page 29

• Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.

  Jerome Groopman

  Hope, Pitfalls, Path

  Jerome Groopman (2005). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, Random House Trade Paperbacks

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• What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

  Katy Lederer

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.

  Dana Gioia

  Dark, Voice, Unbroken

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.14, Macmillan

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• a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

  Pauline Kael

  Mass Culture, Deprivation, Form

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Gold, Notes

  Henry van Dyke (2015). “The Spirit of Christmas”, p.14, Booklassic

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• Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

  Sara Teasdale

  Flames, Joy, Sorrow

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

  Joe Lando

  Years, Paychecks

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• [If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Years, Long

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• I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

  Chip Kidd

  Book, Grateful, Viva

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• I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Horse, Intelligent, Men

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• A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.

  Marie Winn

  Real, People, Events

  Marie Winn (1978). “Plug in Drug”, Bantam Books

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• Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

  Edward Hirsch

  Education, School, People

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• I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Loss, Glasses, Gains

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• There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Nice, Struggle, Emotional

  "Sanaa Lathan Finds Her Way Back to Vera Stark". Interview with Brian Scott Lipton, www.theatermania.com. September 21, 2012.

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• When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Feelings, Typical

  Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

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• All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.

  Samuel Smiles

  Perseverance, Overcoming, Advancement

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.352

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• I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value C—and maintaining a steady supply of maidens—value D. If one inserts the derivative of value A (Prince) into the equation y equals BC plus CD squared, and sets it equal to zero, giving the apex of the parabola, namely, the point of intersection between A (Prince) and B (Monster), one determines value E—a stable kingdom. It is all very complicated, and if you have a chart handy I can graph it for you.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Zero, Order, Cds

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• Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Winning, Years, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

  Will Rogers

  Years, America, Care

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.14, Rowman & Littlefield

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• And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Struggle, Technique, Sometimes

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• You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

  Pablo Picasso

  Light, Suits, Curtains

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• I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.

  Emily Carr

  Humility, Sight, Desire

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.117, D & M Publishers

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• We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Thinking, Years, Demand

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• Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

  Robert Lloyd

  Winning, Race, Tortoises

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• I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Coffee, Writing, Winning

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