Best Grindstone Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Inheritance of Dreams

“A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.”

Motivation Work Discouragement Servitude Grindstone

Book:The Custom of the Country

Source: The Custom of the Country

“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.”

Life Life Is Attitude Perspective Depends Life Lesson Weight Loss Polish Grind Grindstone

Author:Thomas Holcroft

“It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.”

Passion Work Details Noses Cowboy Astronaut Comical Methodical Daredevil Grindstone

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.”

Ifs Trying Years Firsts Two Jobs Parent Comedy College Work Out Pursue Noses Grindstone

Author:Ben Schwartz

“I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.”

Ifs Men Way I Can Hate Bits Work Pleasure Too Much Minutes Pride Arms Goes On Shots Tools I Hate Delight Strikes Clock Strokes Grindstone

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.”

Book School Spiritual Grows Parent Teacher Adversity Guides Encounters Wheels Blades Sharpening Place In Life Grindstone

Author:Rob Kall

“Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.”

Giving Firsts Time Turns Opinion Theory Sharpness Grindstone

Author:Antoine Rivarol

“Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.”

Noses Aerosmith Grindstone Boogers

Author:Steven Tyler

“I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have a new book out, but basically, I've got my nose to the grindstone and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in life, which is make stories.”

Writing Years Book Stories Fun Jokes Having Fun Noses Writing A Book New Books Just Have Fun Grindstone

Author:T.C. Boyle

“I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.”

Noses Grindstone

Author:Andy Roddick

“In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.”

Knows Writing Wells Seeing Shapes Instruments Shining Dull Smooth Closets Bent Hammers Blunt Grindstone

Book:Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

Source: Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

“The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.”

Giving Earth Morning Sun Air Red Calm Grindstone Morning Air Lorry

Book:The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens

Source: The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens

“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.”

Pain Adaptation Time Machine Grindstone

Book:The Time Machine

Source: The Time Machine

“Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Lucky Experience Grindstone

Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

“So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.”

Ifs Knows Men May Lasts Dies Business Attention Successful Industry My Friends Add Noses Poor Richard Own Business Frugality Grindstone

Book:Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

“Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.”

“The world is a grindstone and life is your nose”

World Life Life Is Noses Life Sucks Grindstone

Author:Fred Allen

“Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.”

Spirit Enemy Teacher Danger Disguise Grindstone Swordsman

Book:Way of Life and Death

Source: Way of Life and Death

“Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.”

Personal Development Polish Grind Grindstone

Author:Zig Ziglar

“One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.”

Ifs Knows Hard Body Happens Creative Grace Happenings Things Happen Noses Mechanism Getting Old God Knows Grindstone

Author:Maurice Sendak

“First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.”

Firsts Made Would Be Life Is Depends Polish Grindstone

Author:Zig Ziglar

“A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.”

Ifs Knows Men May Money Noses Poor Richard Frugality Grindstone

Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose.”

Ifs Noses Grindstone

Author:Les Wexner

“The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.”

Hard Enough Dream Moving Hard Work Riches Core Noses Guts American Dream Rags Rags To Riches Grindstone Gumption

Author:Robert Reich

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