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Churning Quotes

The grind of producing more, faster.

These quotes describe churning as a pace of relentless production, whether it's business schools shaping graduates into investment bankers or a musician churning out an album every year. Several capture the exhaustion that comes with that speed.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

Quotes by Vivek Wadhwa

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

Quotes by Vanessa Mae

Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of...

Quotes by Steven Levy

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

Quotes by Simone Schwarz-Bart

Best Quotes

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers...

Quotes by Simon Armitage

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer

I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!

Quotes by Paul Rust

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

Quotes by Paloma Faith

As an assistant, you are grinding it out and churning out work like there are not enough hours in the day, really. As a head coach, you are doing similar.

Quotes by Nick Nurse

Me Quotes

Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.

Quotes by Luis Walter Alvarez

The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition...

Quotes by Lizz Wright

The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.

Quotes by Lionel Barber

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process...

Quotes by Linda Lavin

The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper rapids of the Niagara river.

Quotes by Joan Lingard

Most Quotes

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long...

Quotes by Jeff Kinney

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

Quotes by Jane Velez-Mitchell

I think there is something to be said for churning things out. Motown churned out hits and there is nothing wrong with that.

Quotes by Graham Linehan

When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.

Quotes by Gia Coppola

When I heard 'Back to Black' from Amy Winehouse, I was, like, 'Wow.' To hear such a soulful voice that feels like it's from a different era, I mean, it felt so fresh and unique, and that was something that...

Quotes by Ella Henderson

Music Quotes

I am not interested in churning out a certain number of films every year. For me, it's about the quality of work. I think it's about following your instincts and doing a film for the right reason.

Quotes by Deepika Padukone

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these churning quotes describe?
This page gathers quotes about churning out work at a fast, often exhausting pace, whether that's producing albums, training professionals, or simply getting through a packed workday.
Why do people search for quotes about churning?
Readers dealing with demanding jobs or creative careers often look for churning quotes to put words to the feeling of constant output with little room to slow down.
How do these quotes connect churning to the music industry?
One describes releasing an album every year through the teenage years as a treadmill of recording, promoting, and touring, showing how churning out music can blur into nonstop work.
Do any quotes compare churning across different jobs?
Yes — one draws a direct line between being an assistant grinding out work and becoming a head coach facing similar pressure, suggesting the demand to keep churning doesn't ease with seniority.
Is churning shown only as a negative experience in these quotes?
Not entirely — one describes taking a deliberate break from churning out constant work as a relief, implying that recognizing the pace is the first step toward changing it.

Others compare churning out work across careers, from assistants grinding through long days to coaches facing similar demands, tying the idea to Most people's experience of an unrelenting workload.