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Ploughing Quotes

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

Erich Maria Remarque
Men, Giving, Ploughing
Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “The Road Back: A Novel”, p.249, Random House

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

Louis Agassiz
Work, Age, Ploughing
Louis Agassiz (1876). “Geological Sketches”

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

Patience Strong
Ploughing, Tools, Fundamentals

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

Silvia Cartwright
Energy, Ploughing, Pixels

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Richard Whately
Science, Curiosity, Ploughing
Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.

Vincent Van Gogh
Ploughing, Fields, Facts
Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

Ariel Sharon
Believe, Night, Ploughing
Interview With Matt Rees, content.time.com. May 14, 2005.

Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.

Pliny the Elder
Land, Ploughing, Four
Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics

Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.

Elliot Grove
Careers, Ploughing, Tools

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