Keep Plugging Away Quotes

#1. You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.

Michael Vartan

#2. It is very rewarding to feel and see progress. I am going to put my head down and keep plugging away. I believe the best is yet to come.

Shalane Flanagan

#3. This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#4. You keep plugging away
that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

Noam Chomsky

#5. Everybody has a different journey. Everybody has a different path, and you don't really know what to expect. All you know is to just keep plugging away, and you hope something will come through and something will happen.

Grace Gealey

#6. Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

Michael Chang

#7. You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.

John Gruber

#8. At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

Zachary Knighton

#9. Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.

Robin Leach

#10. Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity.

David Kipper

#11. The nurse reached over and patted the stack of papers she had beside her before glancing back up at the blond again. "I'm plugging in meds and test results." "Blah, blah, blah. Don't let her fool you, she's a Twitter whore. On it all the fucking time

Abbi Glines

#12. You were always an underdog in a videogame, but always guaranteed to win if you just kept plugging away, learned the moves, knew when to Save and when to Quit.

Danny Wallace

#13. Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.

Shemar Moore

#14. From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.

Catherine Tate

#16. By the way, don't you think shoving a light bulb up baby Jesus' butt and plugging it in is just a little sacrilegious?

Dana Marie Bell

#17. The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can we really go ahead and do this? And it was obvious within the first moment of plugging in the instruments that the magic was still there. It was a fantastic feeling.

Christine McVie

#18. I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.

Andy Griffiths

#19. Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I'm paying you $1,000 when all you're doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE

A.O. Storm

#20. Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.

Carrie Brownstein

#21. There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

John Fogerty

#22. It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

#23. Um.. This conversation was probably the worst idea I'd ever had in my life. I was able to picture everything Jordy described, in freaking 3D. And it was turning me on- like plugging into a power grid sort of turning me on. I felt hot all over and my dick was starting to throb. (Owen)

Eli Easton

#24. With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

David Foster

#25. Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.

Shashi Tharoor

#26. Think of yourself as a mobile phone and visualize the signal strength bars on your screen. Plugging In is re-establishing that connection to better your reception.

Malti Bhojwani

#27. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

Haruki Murakami

#28. The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

Steve Vai

#29. Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.

Paula Deen

#30. Maybe if you had focused a little more in school, you could have gotten some scholar..." "No!" Owen shouts, plugging his ears. "How dare you speak that word in my presence?" "What word?" Liam asks with a chuckle. He raises his voice purposefully. "Scholarships?

Loretta Lost

#31. I thought I could get to greatness, to my greatness, by plugging on, cleaning up each mess as it came, the way you're taught to eat your greens before you have dessert.

Claire Messud

#32. But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

Julian Bond

#33. Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.

David Lynch

#34. Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

Bill Wyman

#35. Intercourse is the organic expression of two psyches, not a mechanical plugging in.

Michael Novak

#36. Start your day with and in prayer. Communicate with the Lord and listen for instructions. Hooking up, plugging into, and connecting to the POWER SOURCE each day will keep power outages and disconnections away!

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#37. All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.

Elizabeth Hawes

#38. If you do not take the time to be with yourself, in your own space, you miss Plugging In to the Universe and connecting with yourself. Moreover, in that you miss recognizing all your 'angels' or people who will nourish and nurture your life and you theirs.

Malti Bhojwani

#39. I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

James Bay

#40. I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

Patrick Roy

#41. When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!

Darby Stanchfield

#42. What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#43. What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope you have enough corks to plug enough of the holes.

George Clooney

#44. Only a keen sense of public duty restrains me from plugging you where you sit, you ineffable swine.

Sapper

#45. When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

Beth Orton

#46. Possibly this is some demonstration of how amazing the human brain is, adjusting and readjusting reality, plugging up potential crazy with a handy coping mechanism. As for myself, I think it demonstrates that the human brain is made of recycled monkey bits and pure, unadulterated stupid.

Rachel Sharp

#47. When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

Frederick Lenz

#48. Laplace's Demon, the hypothetical imp that knows the instantaneous positions and velocities of every particle in the universe, was said to be able to calculate the entire future or past by plugging these values into the equations that express the laws of mechanics and electromagnetism.

Steven Pinker

#49. When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'

Dick Dale

#50. Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

Billy Gibbons

#51. And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!

Johnny Depp

#52. We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness.

Judith Martin

#53. I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

Jeff Garlin

#54. Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Paul McCartney