Quotes About Persistence

was willing to make his best effort.

The rest of the night went no better.

I never made it to the other side.

Having given up totally on making it to anything else that day, I spotted a

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

Training in most fields is longer and more intense than ever. People spend years of sixty-, seventy-, eighty-hour weeks building their base of knowledge and experience before going out into practice on their own—whether they are doctors or professors or lawyers or engineers. They have sought to perfect themselves. It is not clear how we could produce substantially more expertise than we already have. Yet our failures remain frequent. They persist despite remarkable individual ability. *

The fire had been difficult, but not to a degree that had ever made him flee before.

I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson.

WHAT DOES IT take to be good at something in which failure is so easy, so effortless?

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.

I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.

practice, however, matters aren't so straightforward.

Effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you.

what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

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.

The nausea and the vomiting persisted, but she would not be defeated by them.

The effort and expense it took to keep him going were enormous

I'd eat right through pain—even to the point of throwing up

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 medicine go right is less often like making a difficult diagnosis than like making sure everyone washes their hands.

In many the entry point is never found at all.)

much about it. When

Once a possibility has been put in your mind—especially one as horrible as necrotizing fasciitis—the possibility does not easily go away.

But doubts nevertheless creep in.

Yet doctors remained undeterred.