“Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.” — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
In spite of our wisdom and sensible talking, we on our feet must go plodding and walking — John Selden Copy Share Image
No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Despite strong performances, Barry Jenkin's 'The Underground Railroad' is plodding and rudderless. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t about being brave, or toughing it out, or any of that air-punching motivational language; all that was required in these… — Lois Pryce Copy Share Image
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
