Grindstone Quotes

• Al ir donde tienes que ir, y hacer lo que tienes que hacer, y ver lo que tienes que ver, desafilarás el instrumento con el que escribes. Pero yo preferiría tenerlo torcido y romo y saber que tengo que volver a afilarlo y darle forma y ponerle una piedra de afilar, y saber que tengo algo sobre lo que escribir, que tenerlo brillante y reluciente y nada que decir, o liso y bien engrasado en el armario, pero sin usar.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Escribir, Brillar, Martillos

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). "Cuentos completos de Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition", p.23, Simon and Schuster.

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• Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

  Thomas Holcroft

  Life, Attitude, Weight Loss

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• Primero, dite a ti mismo lo que serías; luego, haz lo que tengas que hacer. La vida es una piedra de afilar. Si te desgasta o te pule depende de cómo seas TÚ.

  Zig Ziglar

  Firsts, Would Be, Life Is

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• El mundo es una muela y la vida es tu nariz

  Fred Allen

  Vida, Narices, Mundo

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• We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

  H. G. Wells

  Pain, Adaptation, Time Machine

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.45, eKitap Projesi

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• A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, War, Men

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• So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Negocios, Éxito, Hombres

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.478

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• A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Order, Discipline

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.195

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• One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Creative, Grace, Noses

  "Interview: Why Is Maurice Sendak So Incredibly Angry?". Interview with Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting Magazine (October 1993); later quoted in Leonard S. Marcus "Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book" (p. 181), 2002.

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• Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

  Josh Billings

  Inspiración, Vida, Experiencia

  Josh Billings (1972). "Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit por Donald Day".

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• Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Teacher, Enemy, Spirit

  Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

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• A un hacha embotada nunca le gustan las muelas.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Boredom, Dull

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.195

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• La fe en que cualquiera puede pasar de la miseria a la riqueza -con agallas y coraje, trabajo duro y ganas de trabajar- fue una vez el núcleo del Sueño Americano.

  Robert Reich

  Dream, Moving, Hard Work

  "The Meaning of a Decent Society" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

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• I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

  Andy Roddick

  Narices

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• A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Men, Noses

  Benjamin Franklin William Temple Franklin (1809). "Memorias de la vida y escritos de Benjamin Franklin...", p.239

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• Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Real, Mean, Eye

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• La gran muela, la Tierra, había girado cuando el Sr. Lorry volvió a mirar hacia fuera, y el sol estaba rojo en el patio. Pero la muela menor permanecía sola en el aire tranquilo de la mañana, con el rojo que el sol nunca le había dado y que nunca le quitaría.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Air, Giving

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.837, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.

  Zig Ziglar

  Grind, Personal Development, Polish

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• If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose.

  Les Wexner

  Noses, Ifs

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• Las muelas que afilan nuestras cuchillas mentales se encuentran en muchos lugares de la vida. La adversidad, la escuela, los padres, los guías espirituales, los libros y la experiencia son maestros de afilado. A medida que envejecemos, para mantenernos afilados debemos encontrar nuevas muelas que afilen nuestro potencial y nos mantengan en nuestro punto más brillante y penetrante.

  Rob Kall

  Espiritual, Maestro, Libro

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• Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Time, Giving, Firsts

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• I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have a new book out, but basically, I've got my nose to the grindstone and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in life, which is make stories.

  T.C. Boyle

  Diversión, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Work, Passion, Cowboy

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• No puedo soportar ver a los hombres tirar sus herramientas de esa manera, en el momento en que el reloj comienza a sonar, como si no tuvieran placer en su trabajo, y tuvieran miedo de dar un golpe de más.... Odio ver a un hombre bajar los brazos como si le hubieran disparado, antes de que el reloj haya dado la hora, como si nunca hubiera sentido orgullo ni placer en su trabajo. La misma piedra de afilar 'ull seguir girando un poco después de perderlo.

  George Eliot

  Work, Hate, Pride

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.

  Steven Tyler

  Noses, Aerosmith, Boogers

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