Quotes about plugging (16 Quotes)


    Right now, we're just plugging away, but we've got to start finding somebody who can get us to the end zone quickly. And when something negative happens, we seem to have trouble with adversity. It's a lack of confidence right now.

    We started out pretty aggressive, then we just didn't attack enough. Central made some adjustments and started plugging the inside. We got some outside shots (3-for-14 on three-pointers), but they weren't falling. You can't fault our effort.

    I was at home when he was plugging 14-, 16-hour days, when he really didn't want to be there. He couldn't watch me play baseball, ... I see the work he put into turning them around. He's made a couple key moves that have made me very proud.


    Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.



    We told them at halftime to keep plugging away. Our second quarter was just awful. I saw a couple pouts out there and I told them to turn those frowns into smiles and pick it up and play basketball like we know how to play it.

    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.

    They are similar, and completely different. They come from the same place pure passion, hatred, scorn, lost love, the whole thing. I think you can say that for every kind of music, but there's something very authentic about when it comes from one man and his guitar, or someone just plugging in and playing, bashing away at drums and chords--it feels more real.

    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.

    We've stayed with it pretty much through the whole trip, we've been consistent. We've worked hard, we came here with the attitude we wanted to keep plugging away. They got our number tonight. Give them credit, too. They play tight defense, they've been known for that for 15 years.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    They had to take care of their families. They were exhausted. They were depressed, some of them. They were overwhelmed, but they kept plugging along.

    Imagine believing in the control of inflation by curbing the money supply That is like deciding to stop your dog fouling the sidewalk by plugging up its rear end. It is highly unlikely to succeed, but if it does it kills the hound.



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