Grinding Quotations

The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.

I've been grinding at music for over a decade now. Since I was 18, I decided that this is what I wanted to do. It's not an easy thing. When you start getting 25, 26, people are like, 'Oh you're a musician huh? That's what you're gonna do? When are you going to get a real job?' I never gave up.

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

I want to make people feel certain ways when they listen to my music. Whether it's partying or going through relationship problems or grinding or getting dressed and feeling fly. I want to be who I am and have emotion in my music that affects people.

I wrote a book called 'Doll Bones', which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book.

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.

Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

When we were winning, our practices were (about) grinding each other, getting on each other, yelling and hollering. It's been a little dead out there lately, not as competitive.

What a beautiful shot he hit on 11. I'm standing with a five-iron thinking of hitting it close and he hits it stiff. And now I'm grinding to hit it close rather than just trying to hit a good shot. That's where you win matches, with shots like that.

We're just rolling four lines, playing good defensively and getting good goaltending. We're just grinding out wins right now.

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

We decided to run that ball and try to live with it. We kept pounding, getting yards after contact, just grinding it out in a real physical way. That's great.

We're gritty right now. We're grinding through games an inning at a time.

We're grinding the trees first to try and break down into finer pieces, so we can extract the needles.

We're grinding these games out, playing nine innings.

We're grinding out some good increases here. We're producing more than we ever did and our capacity to produce industrial goods has increased.

We're grinding like heck, ... to get a chance to roll the dice in August and September.

When you're angry, you're grinding at what you're doing all week. You pay attention. Sometimes when you feel good about yourself, you don't cross a few T's.

Legislation could have a dampening effect on the growth and expansion and the vitality of e-commerce, ... Our society functions on the free flow of information. If we have to have everybody's approval on everything, things would come to a grinding halt.

My feeling is that the actual numbers will be OK, but that there'll still be a lack of confidence about where we go from here over the next six to 12 months. Generally, we're still likely to continue grinding sideways to lower, although at the moment it's looking like its more lower than sideways.

I was grinding like I was winning the tournament.

I was so proud of the way we played defensively. Anytime you hold a team to 28 points you should win the game. You shouldn't be grinding it out with two seconds to go.

I wish they'd give the trophy away today, but they don't. It's definitely an accomplishment, and I'm proud of myself for grinding it out and playing so well against the No. 1 player in the world.

I feel good. I've had two good weeks. That's showed me something. But that doesn't make me a top player in the world all of a sudden. I've just got to keep working and keep grinding and keep trying to play good golf.

Futures are pointing up a little bit. I think we will see a typical August Friday: Low volume and no economic data. I think we will see some winding and grinding for most of the day.

He has so much power, he keeps on moving and grinding those legs. It was beautiful to watch. He just kept on going.

This wasn't our style of play at all. Like I said, we had to adjust and play whichever way we had to play, and if that meant grinding it out like that, we got it done.

We're in the process of grinding out a bit of a bottom here. But it's a rotational market and the guys that are playing the last cycle by running in and buying the techs and so forth are ultimately going to be disappointed.

We've got to keep grinding and stay on top of it. . . . The tide will turn for us, and we'll get it going. It's right around the corner.

Having the right attitude goes further than grinding yourself into the ground another two hours after skating.

He was loading Christmas trees. It struck me how college and football is so different from grinding it out in the real world. He had stayed in touch, and I knew that he had qualified. I was proud of him. I could tell by his voice that he was excited. He said, 'Coach, I can't wait to get started.' He had missed football.

I also like the idea of having Bagwell in there, too. . . . There will be a lot of that grinding going on to consider what it's going to be.

Just not panicking, just feeling as though you can continue to play each game week by week and really keep grinding it out. You never know, because the season's so long. Teams are going to drop games, so you never really know how you're going to be in position.

I think it's going to be about keeping our chins up, working in practice. We've had some of our best practices, so we have to keep working hard. It's unfortunate we lost today, but we have to keep grinding and see what we can do.

I think it's going to get better. Not going through the grinding of the game is definitely going to help it get better. We feel like we're on the right track.

I thought a big key for us was that even though we didn't play well, we kept grinding and playing hard. If we would have made our free throws and gotten some more of our shots, our lead would have been 20 points instead of eight.

I think there's still just a long grinding process ahead of Brazil, as they try to shake through this.

Our top priority this week is to play good defense because Alton can beat you in a lot of different ways. They can play ball control, grinding it out for eight or nine minutes, or they can complete a 70-yard pass, like they did against us last season. Our defense is going to have to be ready for anything.

My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

I think I did a pretty good job. There's definitely room for improvement, but I feel I've come a long way since my first start. I'm just going to keep grinding and getting better.

I think his first booking was a little bit harsh as well. To jump over a board, and as long as you're ... going to celebrate, you've just put us 2-1 up away from home, grinding out a great result, there's no harm in that at all.

Jon and Tim both admittedly didn't have their best game. Jon said he kept grinding all the way to the end. We say when you don't have your stuff you grind it out. Tim said he was four or five strokes over early and just kept grinding.

I'm home, and I'm a lot better off today than I was yesterday. I just keep thanking the Lord. We're going to keep grinding this out and beat it.

You just have to keep grinding every day. There's no magic solution to this thing. If there was, we would have pushed that button about 10 days ago.

We're close enough to a lot of top-50 teams so that if our standing remains or gets higher our ranking will move up. The girls relaxed, enjoyed the day, and they weren't grinding it so much today and were just relaxed. I'm very proud of their performance today and hopefully we can post another good number tomorrow to end our regular season on a positive note.

We don't want to let them down and I'm confident we're more than capable of grinding out a result against Adelaide, even if it isn't very pretty.

We just didn't have the same approach in Game 2. The game was grinding to a halt and we just could not get anything going.

We were going as hard as we could without grinding too hard on them. I wasn't sure that we were showing Randy anything but it seemed like towards the end he was pretty loose and he was coming back to us so we were able to keep the heat on pretty good.

You knew they were going to hit some deep shots, and we just had to keep grinding and grinding. I thought Donald Brown on the boards in the second half really mixed it up. I thought we played with great energy in the second half.

We've been grinding all year. It's been sloppy all year. We find a way to make plays at crucial times. And that's what we're all about.

We have made a lot more deals after the winter meetings since I have been GM than at the winter meetings. We are still hopeful to be active in the pursuit of an outfielder. We'll keep grinding it out until we rectify that.

We didn't do anything fancy, but we didn't get in a whole lot of trouble. They're one of those grinding teams and we matched their intensity and won a lot of one-on-one battles. We usually came out with the puck.

We're kind of looking ahead before we get the ball. We need to keep grinding it out.

Wandy did a super job today and that was huge for us. Our pitching has done a marvelous job the last six games. You have to feel good any time they pitch, but I'd like to see our offense come around a little. The guys are grinding and by me saying this, it'll probably put more pressure on them.

We do an awfully good job of grinding out wins at the end.

The fact that we are grinding higher shows that people are getting more confident.

We're just consistent right now, playing hard, grinding it out. Whatever kind of basketball needs to be played on any given night, we're playing it.

We are working on something. We are still working out our situation. We are working and grinding right now.

We knew it was going to be a grinding game. We knew it was going to be a possession-by-possession game. We picked up the defensive intensity in the second half and that made a big difference.

We are starting to see a change in consumer behavior. Consumers are cutting back because of high prices, rising interest rates and signs that the housing bubble is ending. Prices have probably begun the long steady process of grinding lower.

With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel.

You have to have that grinding mentality that you never give up. Always pay attention to what your opponent is doing.

We've really been grinding it out, and now we are starting to click. It takes the pressure off the pitchers.

We just need to keep grinding and hope they don't have a 52 percent shooting night because they're going to mostly be 3s.

We just had to keep grinding and grinding.

Everything goes through committees, everything has to be approved by at least a dozen people... it's a very slow grinding process,

There's still upside in tech but it's going to be more grudging and grinding and choppy, it's not going to be this moon shot that we saw a year ago.

The tournament is not over yet, just because you beat one guy. It's definitely an accomplishment, and I'm proud of myself for grinding it out.

The wins are a credit to our players. Our players are grinding it out everyday.

I've played with these guys for a very long time and won a championship with these guys, so they're very special to me. Doug, Kevin, Johnny and Bill brought intangibles of playing hard, getting dirty and grinding out games. You appreciate playing with people like that, and you hope that it isn't lost by whoever they do bring in.

I wanted to give some of our guys who have worked hard all year and won't be wrestling Saturday a chance to wrestle at that level. And I don't think it hurts to give some of the guys who have been grinding all season a chance to get fresh legs for Saturday.

Sometimes you can't do a thing about it. You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

A physical player that finished his checks and could play that grinding game which all fans would respect, but certainly in Philly they really respected that kind of play.

a very exciting day and I am very proud of our team. We all kept grinding and grinding and it worked out great.

That tells you how much grip they've put in this thing by grinding it,

That's how our team has approached it the whole month. It's a grind, and we're grinding it.

You're going to go out there and you may feel good, you may feel bad; that really doesn't matter, ... You have to go out and make pitches. Sometimes it may take five pitches to get that one out, but you've got to keep grinding it. With our team, anything can happen.

This is a start. It's like eating a piece of cake. There's a whole cake out there to eat. We ate one piece of it today. We have to keep grinding if we want to eat the whole thing.

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes around. We're the rocks. And what happens to us- the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse- why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

It was sixth grade, and my after-school job consisted of grinding the mozzarella, opening the cans of tomatoes and, of course, delivering the pies.

It was strong enough to say with conviction that we're not going to come to grinding halt, but weak enough that the Fed can stay on hold, ... It's Goldilocks again.

It was a very, very exciting day, looking at the scoreboard. There was a lot of up and down, obviously. But we were persistent. We kept grinding and grinding and grinding.

I told the offensive line they played really well after the game. They just kept grinding on them.

It's been a lot of hard work and a lot of grinding it out.

That's a function of companies wanting to feel confident that the economy is up and running again before they hire back. If they do want to ramp up activities, they do it by grinding more out of existing people.

It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.

It's huge. It was just a great team effort. The guys got it done at the end. We just kept grinding and battling and I was able to make some saves.

It used to be a fun week. Now it's a grinding week. The Masters is now like the U.S. Open - even tougher on the mind than the U.S. Open.

It used to be a fun week. Now, it's a grinding week.

The rest are silent emergencies grinding poverty and chronic hunger that doesn't get seen on TV, ... And their needs tend to go unmet.

Anytime you lose that many games, it's really tough. You just have to keep grinding it out and hopefully we learned from it. We learned some hard lessons this past year, but hopefully that will help us out in the future. (KC manager Buddy Bell) has made some changes and he's a good manager. I have a lot of respect for him.

At 1-2, I wasn't grinding on the kids about performance or anything like that. It was about recovery. It was about understanding who we're playing and where we are with the program and where we want to go. It was about motivating to rebuild.

That's a man's race. You'll have guys really going for it, really grinding it out.

The last couple years for them to be in the position they've been in winning wise, it's been tough on me being injured, ... You want to be part of that. At the same time, it's a family in here and I'm still part of it. You don't have that emotional attachment, you haven't spent that time grinding it out. It's kind of like I've been the long lost relative, kind of been out of the country for a while.

The Canadian dollar is grinding lower, playing catch-up with the price correction that we saw in oil last week.

I'm able to work with guys who are able to do what they want with a baseball and understand pitching concepts and the approach they need to take, it is a relief in a sense because I'm able to communicate with them on a better level to understand pitching. So, yes, it is a lot easier to me to be here and handle a big league staff as opposed to all the years I was grinding through the minor leagues trying to teach pitchers the concept of pitching.

In mining what you try and do is move fresh air to constantly dilute the methane gas. Methane is a potential fuel for an explosion in a mine. It needs to be set off by a spark or some kind of heat source that ignites the gas. Also, in coal mines you have coal dust created by grinding of the coal. There are other things. That coal dust is also potentially explosive.