Quotes About Persistence

Water never waits. It changes shape and floes around things, and finds the secret paths no one else thought about __ the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth, it can put out fire; it can wear a piece of metal down and can sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can'survive without being nurtured by water.

When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

But she told me I was like water..Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain

Izdrži. To je jedino što bilo tko od nas može u?initi na ovome svijetu.

Ne?u re?i da sam imala priro?enog dara za ples ili za bilo što drugo, ali sam zasigurno bila spremna uporno raditi dok ne postignem cilj.

There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in. A woman's cave is particularly special to a man if no other eel has ever been in it before.

Incluso las rocas terminan erosionándose con la lluvia.

L'acqua si scava la strada attraverso la pietra, e quando è intrappolata, l'acqua si crea un nuovo varco. L'acqua è potente: spegne il fuoco, scava la pietra, distrugge il ferro.

There's nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.

Every step I have taken in my life since I was a child in Gion, I have taken in the hope of bringing myself closer to you.

Meus encontros com o General me lembravam certa vez quando, ainda criança, eu lutara por subir numa árvore e pegar certa folha no alto. Era tudo uma questão de movimentos cautelosos, suportando o desconforto até finalmente atingir meu objetivo.

When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half

And yet, by three incorrect steps and their even more correct defence, Kepler stumbled on the correct law. It is perhaps the most amazing sleep-walking performance in the history of science-except for the manner in which he found his First Law, to which we now turn.

History knows no vacillating and no consideration for feelings. It flows, powerfully and unerringly, toward its goal. On every bend it deposits debris and sludge and the bodies of the drowned. But—it knows its course. History doesn't make mistakes.

Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero?

There are certain people, the sicker they get the longer they live.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Gotta break your neck to see a star in this yard.

Things might have been a lot worse. Don't you worry about it overmuch. When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Science is not a taxi-cab that we can get in and out of whenever we like.

For the longer to have had to rack your brains for something the more firmly will is stay once you have got it.

We, the salt of the earth, should endeavor to follow, by never letting anything disturb us in the pursuit of our intellectual life, however much the storm of the world may invade and agitate our personal environment.