Quotes About Plugging Along

#1. 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

#2. I'm not much of a joke writer.

Ben Falcone

#3. I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.

Julie Harris

#4. He felt sandbagged. Doomsday, Armageddon. Booze begets instant misconduct and regret. He walked to the couch and fell down.

James Ellroy

#5. I can't believe I only knew you for a year and a half - how can one person change you in two football seasons? But you did.

Heather Demetrios

#6. Her heart kicked hard against her ribs, seized by a terrible fear that refused to let go no matter how hard she pushed.

Kady Cross

#7. Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.

Frances Wright

#8. Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.

Bryan Kest

#9. Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Neal Shusterman

#10. I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

Sean Astin