Best Chipping Away Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.”

Writing Secret Cutting Progress Rocks Mountain Picks Flow Highways Chipping Away Slow Progress

Author:Piers Anthony

“So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.”

Home Eye Sleep Knives Closest Dimes Chipping Away

Author:Mariah Carey

“When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there's only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn't believe in. There's been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it's just you in the spotlight in front of all these people.”

People Thinking Giving Believe Littles Has Beens I Can Soul Bits Lines Doubt Fronts Little Bit Your Soul Spotlight Chipping Away

Author:Richard Ashcroft

“Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.”

Knows Pieces Stones Finished Not Sure Sculpture Chipping Away

Author:Robert Altman

“You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.”

States Law Liberty Expanding Surveillance Abiding Freedom And Liberty Surveillance State Chipping Away

Author:Ron Wyden

“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”

Source: The Philistine

“But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.”

Thinking Chipping Away

Author:Sissy Spacek

“Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.”

Thinking Looks Body Happens Would Be Hours Happened Stage Down And Cancer Things Happen Nine Layers Surgery Chipping Away

Author:Eve Ensler

“There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.”

Mind Art Use Action Certain Focus Pieces Emotional Fit Pages Advantage Stones Exciting Pressure Complexes Satisfaction Complicated Suspects Works Of Art Passages Juice Sculptors Chipping Away

Author:James Vance

“Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had a few minor mental breakdowns due to a what I felt like was a constant chipping away at my personhood (guys thinking I would have unprotected sex with them if they just paid me fifty more dollars, for instance) and a few abusive clients.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Guy Girl Sex Felt Habit Paid Constant Dollars Dues Instance Fifty Minors Clients Liquor Breakdown Drifting Abusive Personhood Chipping Away Mental Breakdown

Author:Marie Calloway

“People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.”

People Thinking Kind Art Difficult Levels Materials Capacity Performances Manage Performers Thinker Execution Motor High Level Great Thinkers Chipping Away

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories breaking with Anthem-like implications. And the ideas crushing the individual are all around us, chipping away at us constantly.”

Kind Ideas Stories Individual Careers Achieve Crush Implications Anthem Chipping Away

Author:Jeff Britting

“Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.”

“I feel like you have to earn something with an audience. If I just did it now, I think producers on any superhero movie, I think they wouldn't trust me to do it the way I'd want to do it, because I'd want to do something basically really strange. I think you have to earn that freedom to do stuff like that. So I think, if I keep kind of chipping away, trying to do good movies and interesting, strange movies then people will eventually trust you to do that on a bigger scale.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Trying Kind Stuff Interesting Audience Strange Like You Bigger Scales Producers Superhero Trust Me Good Movie Chipping Away

Author:Robert Pattinson

“If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.”

“Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.”

Firsts Matter Happens Young Energy Given Fire Events Havens One Day Let Me Wake Up Who You Are Stealing Second Thoughts Erode Chipping Away

Book:The Elf Queen of Shannara

Source: The Elf Queen of Shannara

“Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.”

“Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.”

Thinking Men World Want Difficult Tasks Mess Difficult Tasks Chipping Away

Author:Cher

“All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.”

Men Trying Ideas Self Masterpiece Sculptors Unwanted Chipping Away

Author:Eddie Murphy

“I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.”

Thinking Writing Form Language Building Mediums Building Things Chipping Away

Author:Will Self

“Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.”

Humans Earth Winning Water Authority Rivers Dancing Environmental Tunes Gravity Resisting Defying Renegades Rafting Chipping Away Defying Gravity

Author:Richard Bangs

“Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.”

Writing Rocks Exercise Noses Sculpture Chipping Away

Author:Stanley Elkin

“Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.”

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Author:Ann Romney

“Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type." "You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man," Penny corrected. "Or you're not.”

Knows Men Perfect Type Dad Steady Layers Nerd Shields Pennies Defenseless Hacked Chipping Away

Book:The Novels of Nora Roberts

Source: The Novels of Nora Roberts

“. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.”

Trying Mind Form Knowing Letting Go Notion Knives Tao Consolation Fingertips Manageable Chipping Away

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.”

People Ifs Believe Looks Use Asks Rooms Dangerous Ask Me Rising Proportion Spares Mundane Laundry Spare Time Chipping Away

Author:Kim Harrison

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