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Quotes About Determination

Courage, Laches responds, "is a certain endurance of the soul.
~ Atul Gawande
That left only one possibility:
~ Atul Gawande
I asked Thomas what his special technique for sales was as a kid. He said he didn't have any. It was simply that "I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected." It
~ Atul Gawande
I had little hope of succeeding.
~ Atul Gawande
was willing to make his best effort.
~ Atul Gawande
operation I believe that with enough will and effort I can beat the odds.
~ Atul Gawande
Having given up totally on making it to anything else that day, I spotted a
~ Atul Gawande
that I myself have said no.
~ Atul Gawande
we had not chosen who that cardiologist would be.
~ Atul Gawande
The fire had been difficult, but not to a degree that had ever made him flee before.
~ Atul Gawande
I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson.
~ Atul Gawande
It may seem odd that such a person would place herself in front of a camera.
~ Atul Gawande
After a couple of weeks, she grew only more convinced
~ Atul Gawande
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped.
~ Atul Gawande
I was willing to be rejected...You have to be willing to be rejected. It was a trait that let him persist until he got what he wanted and avoid whatever he didn't want.
~ Atul Gawande
I would have gone through with it even if they told me there was a fifty percent chance of death.
~ Atul Gawande
The alternative was to do nothing.
~ Atul Gawande
She just had to hang in there, she told herself
~ Atul Gawande
I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.
~ Atul Gawande
what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
~ Atul Gawande
asked Thomas what his special technique for sales was as a kid. He said he didn't have any. It was simply that "I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.
~ Atul Gawande
I wouldn't be a surgeon if I thought otherwise.)
~ Atul Gawande
But now he was adamant about doing "everything." David did not dare argue with him.
~ Atul Gawande
The nausea and the vomiting persisted, but she would not be defeated by them.
~ Atul Gawande