Chip Away Quotes

21 Chip Away quotes by 21 unique authors

Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts.… — Confucius
Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a… — Lewis H. Lapham
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire.… — Earl Nightingale
It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but… — Edward Burns
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 bit now is… — Douglas Wilson
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity. — Stefan Molyneux
Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond… — Helen Thomas
Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of… — Mark Lawrence
A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the… — Elisabeth Elliot
Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that. — Mara Liasson
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble… — Chaim Potok
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an… — Ariel Dorfman
I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it. — Mitchell Hurwitz
Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of… — Jason Reitman
By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain… — Hugh Prather
When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness… — Anthony Venn-Brown
Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words. — Peter Serafinowicz
I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women… — Romola Garai
Remember: the ratings system is a voluntary infringement of First Amendment rights, an uneasy bargain between the needs of parents, the needs of artists, and… — Marshall Herskovitz
I'm trying to chip away as much as I can on college, but this semester it was nearly impossible. I want to beat that statistic… — Bristol Palin
Insecure girls go after the taken guys, the guys their friends like, the off limits ex boyfriends of their friends, or any guy that gives… — Jazmin Garcia

Who Wrote These Chip Away Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 21 Chip Away Quotes as follows: