Chip Away Quotes

#1. Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

Jason Reitman

#2. Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

Mara Liasson

#3. She'd often wished to chip away a bit of his arrogance, but she couldn't bear the idea of seeing Kaz stripped of his pride.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.

Ariel Dorfman

#5. Mountains are moved when we choose positivity, when we choose to exert the power of love, when we chip away at our problems 1 day at a time.

D. Allen Miller

#6. When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

Anthony Venn-Brown

#7. He rose grumpily, fell to the floor, and crawled. I looked at his exposed butt crack, a dark unkempt abyss that I was falling into. I was short of breath. I felt paralyzed. His asshole was a canyon. This was my 127 hours. I needed to chip away at the rock and get out.

Amy Schumer

#8. I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

Chaim Potok

#9. By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.

Hugh Prather

#10. Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.

Brett Dennen

#11. I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

Stefan Molyneux

#12. I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#13. I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

Douglas Wilson

#14. Someone once asked Michelangelo how he was able to create the amazing statue of David. He replied, "I didn't create David. He was there all along, in that massive block of marble. I just had to chip away to find him.

Lori Nelson Spielman

#15. Because no doctor or scientist of any sort, no one at all, really knows much of anything in the grand scheme of things. All we can do is speculate, chip away at our lonely perception of the truth, spew guesswork out of our learned mouths, and at the end of the day just have a cold beer.

Anonymous

#16. Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man's memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.

Mark Lawrence

#17. It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away ... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

Edward Burns

#18. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

David Gries

#19. When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

Michelangelo

#20. I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.

Tammy L. Gray

#21. Your life is a sculpture, every day chip away.

J.R. Rim

#22. When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.

Ted Nugent

#23. Not all breaks are clean. Sometimes we crumble, sometimes we erode. And those erosions, Eppie-the ones that chip away at our hopes and dreams and out plans for the futures-those are often a lifetime in the making. It's those we must watch out for, my dear.

Megan Squires

#24. You're born thinking you're the centre of things, and they chip away at that until you expire muttering If I knew then, or some nonsense in an empty rooming house.

Mark Anthony Jarman

#25. It was the summer just before we both turned twenty. Before life began to chip away at us like a sculptor into marble, reducing us from endless unformed possibility into the women we would ultimately become.

Kim Wright

#26. Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.

Peter Serafinowicz

#27. We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety. I'm sure my positions won't make me the hero of the NRA.

Mitt Romney

#28. As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the shape of an idea clearly. My gift is to see through the confusion, to bring order and simplicity to a story.

Leslie Parrish

#29. I like to do things that you need to chip away at.

Anthony Pratt

#30. We chip away as best we can at the mysterious block of marble our lives are made of- in vain; the black vein of destiny always reappears.

Victor Hugo

#31. I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

Romola Garai

#32. Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

Helen Thomas

#33. I cannot keep myself away from ice cream. I have two flavors that are my favorite: chocolate chip cookie dough and vanilla swiss almond. I can eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting, no problem!

Brandi Chastain

#34. When you have mastered this technique, try to chip the ball to a partner 20 yards away. Roll

Andrew Latham

#35. I am a man who am slow to change; and, if you take away from me the faith that I have been taught, it would be long ere I could learn one to set in its place. It is but a chip here and a chip there, yet it may bring the tree down in time.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#36. You're a chip shot away from everything you've ever wanted.

Robert G. Allen

#37. So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!

Chip Giller

#38. When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.

Chip Conley