quotes about Grit
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
-- Anna FunderSource : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.162, Granta Books
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The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else
-- Brian MaySource : "Brian May - A Regal Audience". Vox Magazine Interview, www.brianmay.com. March 1991.
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If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
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Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit
-- Chip Heath -
Wilshere looks like he's got the grit between his teeth
-- Darren Gough -
The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.
-- Erk Russell -
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.
-- Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr. -
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Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
-- George Eliot -
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.
-- Jack Ma -
I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.
-- John Kendrick BangsSource : John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
-- John Ortberg -
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That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.
-- Kathryn Stockett -
If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.
-- Little MiltonSource : Song: Grits Ain't Groceries
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The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?
-- Maile MeloySource : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.197, Canongate Books
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Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
-- Morley Safer -
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.
-- Nancy KressSource : Nancy Kress (2009). “Steal Across the Sky”, p.12, Macmillan
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Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!
-- Paula Deen -
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
-- Robert W. ServiceSource : ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”
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Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
-- S.M. StirlingSource : S. M. Stirling (2012). “Lord of Mountains: A Novel of the Change”, p.23, Penguin
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It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.
-- Stephen King -
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
-- Taisen DeshimaruSource : "Zen to Go" by Jon Winokur, (p. 126), 1989.
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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
-- Tayari JonesSource : Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.314, Algonquin Books
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It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.
-- Walter Mason Camp -
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
-- Warren G. Bennis -
If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around samples of the grit in envelopes of conversational confidence.
-- William George Jordan -
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
-- Yasser Arafat -
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Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.
-- Alex LemonSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.
-- Kathy FrestonSource : "Going Vegan Doesn't Mean Missing Out On Favorites". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne and David Greene,, www.npr.org. December 27, 2012.
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I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.
-- Kathy Freston -
The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.
-- E-40Source : Source: licensed2ill.wordpress.com
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