Plodding Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention… — Ernest Dimnet
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven.… — Stephen Spender
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity â€” please observe, a plodding mediocrity â€” for a mere mediocrity does not go very far,… — Benjamin Cardozo
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would… — Thomas Huxley
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in… — Steve Martin
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as… — John Ruskin
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. — Robert W. Service
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not… — Hunter S. Thompson
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless… — Sylvia Plath
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to… — Margaret Weis
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful… — Isaac Asimov
I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By… — Donald Miller
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit… — Bryce Courtenay
As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns,… — Dean Karnazes
The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a… — Gregory David Roberts
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought… — Elihu Burritt
In spite of our wisdom and sensible talking, we on our feet must go plodding and walking — John Selden

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