#plow

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#even #fields #find #hand #other

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#hit #levels #life #make #passes

I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#behind #get #gonna #got #i

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? ↗

— Seymoure Cray

#field #oxen #plowing #rather #strong

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#each #ears #fields #individual #just

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#crops #depreciate #favor #freedom #ground

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#got #grow #help #hurt #one thing

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. ↗

— George Lucas

#blinders #foot #front #going #keep