Chipping Away Quotes

• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Art, Block

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

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• Ya sea que la gente abandone "The View" cuando Bill O'Reilly hace una declaración sobre el islamismo radical o que Juan Williams sea despedido por expresar su opinión, la exagerada corrección política está minando las libertades fundamentales estadounidenses de expresión.

  Eric Cantor

  Alejarse, Vistas, Expresión

  "Republicans to Add NPR Funding to 'You Cut' Budget Slashing Contest". www.foxnews.com. 22 de octubre de 2010.

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• Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

  Cher

  Men, Thinking, Tasks

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  All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

  Eddie Murphy

  Hombres, Yo, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Los ríos salvajes son los renegados de la Tierra, desafían a la gravedad, bailan al son de sus propias melodías, se resisten a la autoridad de los humanos, siempre van picando piedra y, al final, siempre ganan.

  Richard Bangs

  Ganar, Ríos, Bailar

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• I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

  Will Self

  Writing, Thinking, Building Things

  "Will Self (1961- )", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Disappointment, Hard Work, Law

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• Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.

  Stanley Elkin

  Writing, Exercise, Rocks

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• Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.

  Ann Romney

  Niños, Hogar, Escuela

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• I feel like you have to earn something with an audience. If I just did it now, I think producers on any superhero movie, I think they wouldn't trust me to do it the way I'd want to do it, because I'd want to do something basically really strange. I think you have to earn that freedom to do stuff like that. So I think, if I keep kind of chipping away, trying to do good movies and interesting, strange movies then people will eventually trust you to do that on a bigger scale.

  Robert Pattinson

  Pensar, Gente, Interesante

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.

  Edith Widder

  Ocean, People, Challenges

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• Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories breaking with Anthem-like implications. And the ideas crushing the individual are all around us, chipping away at us constantly.

  Jeff Britting

  Crush, Careers, Ideas

  Fuente: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

  Kim Harrison

  Believe, People, Looks

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• People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.

  Antonio Damasio

  Arte, Pensamiento, Gente

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Hacia el final [de mi trabajo como chica de compañía], me sentía caer en el vicio del alcohol y sufrí algunas pequeñas crisis mentales debido a lo que consideraba un constante menoscabo de mi personalidad (por ejemplo, chicos que pensaban que tendría relaciones sexuales sin protección con ellos si me pagaban cincuenta dólares más) y algunos clientes abusivos.

  Marie Calloway

  Chica, Sexo, Pensar

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.

  James Vance

  Art, Emotional, Focus

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Thinking, Would Be

  "La gran idea: Eve Ensler". Entrevista con Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. 12 de junio de 2013.

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• Pero al final piensas, hay lo que hay, y tienes que trabajar dentro de esos límites y seguir picando piedra en tu propio trabajo.

  Sissy Spacek

  Pensar

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• You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

  Ron Wyden

  Surveillance State, Law, Liberty

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

  Robert Altman

  Sculpture, Pieces, Stones

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• When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there's only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn't believe in. There's been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it's just you in the spotlight in front of all these people.

  Richard Ashcroft

  Creer, Pensar, Gente

  Source: www.excellentonline.com

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• Así que muchos de los que yo consideraba, más cercanos a mí, se volvieron en un centavo y me vendieron obedientemente, aunque ese cuchillo me estaba astillando, apartaron la mirada y se fueron a casa a dormir.

  Mariah Carey

  Hogar, Sueño, Ojo

  Canción: Petals, Album: Rainbow, 1999

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• Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Cutting, Rocks

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• Déjame decirte algo que aún no has aprendido, algo que sólo se aprende viviendo un tiempo. A medida que envejeces, te das cuenta de que la vida empieza a desgastarte. No importa quién seas o lo que hagas, eso ocurre. La experiencia, el tiempo, los acontecimientos... todos conspiran contra ti para robarte energía, erosionar tu confianza, hacerte cuestionar cosas que no te habrías planteado cuando eras joven. Ocurre gradualmente, una erosión de la que ni siquiera te das cuenta al principio, y un día ya está ahí. Te despiertas y ya no tienes el fuego". Sonrió.

  Terry Brooks

  Fire, One Day, Energy

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Elf Queen of Shannara”, p.164, Del Rey

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• . . . Estas son nociones de la mente, que es como un cuchillo, siempre astillando el Tao, tratando de hacerlo asible y manejable. Pero lo que está más allá de la forma es inasible, y lo que está más allá del conocimiento es inmanejable. Sin embargo, existe este consuelo: Quien suelte el cuchillo encontrará el Tao al alcance de su mano.

  Laozi

  Dejar Ir, Saber, Cuchillos

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). "Hua Hu Ching: Enseñanzas de Lao Tzu".

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