Quotes About Persistence

You should deal sternly and despotically with your memory, so that it does not unlearn obedience; if, for example, you cannot call something to mind, a line of poetry or a word perhaps, you should not go and look it up in a book, but periodically plague your memory with it for weeks on end until your memory has done its duty. For the longer you have had to rack your brains for something the more firmly will it stay once you have got it.

I have been pursuing my own train of thought for more than thirty years, undisturbed by all this, just because it is what I must do, and I could not do otherwise, out of an instinctive drive which is nonetheless supported by the confidence that what is thought truly and what throws light on obscurity will be grasped at some point by another thinking mind.XX

Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again through these, the persistence of substance during alteration of state.

A happy life is impossible, the highest that man can achieve is a heroic life.

Umut gerçeÄŸin reddediliÅŸidir , koÅŸmaya devam etmesi için at?n burnunun ucunda salland?rd?klar? havuçtan ibarettir.

Ä°nsan?n hayat?, yenileceÄŸinden hiç ÅŸüphe etmeksizin, var olmaya çal??mak için harcanm?? bir çabad?r.

Yohannes D. Asega > My Quotes (showing 1-1 of 1) sort by ? top up up position down down ? bottom Remove this quote from your collectionArthur Schopenhauer "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.

Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip.

Quando procuramos estimular a nossa inteligência e o nosso conhecimento, sentimos constantemente a resistência da época como um peso que devemos arrastar, mas que, apesar de todo o nosso esforço, insiste em manter-se no chão.

But Xauleira ra KaAa,-what is worth doing is hard to do.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

The frozen flowers never go away. They hang around somewhere all the time.

But the man I met--he is the love I had wanted to reach long before I knew that he existed, and I think he will remain beyond my reach, but that I love him will be enough to keep me living.

ODTAA syndrome: the syndrome of One Damn Thing After Another.

The seemingly easiest and most sensible rule for a doctor to follow is: Always Fight. Always look for what more you could do.

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in. We are used to thinking of doctoring as a solitary, intellectual task. But making the medicine go right is less often like making a difficult diagnosis than like making sure everyone washes their hands.

They believe in practice, not talent.

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

Skill, surgeons believe, can be taught; tenacity cannot.

Indeed, the most important talent may be the talent for practice itself.

one's willingness to engage in sustained training.

and then define a pattern around them.

I had little hope of succeeding.