Quotes About Persistence

Gordon Korman

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I'm not retiring," I tell her. "Sign me up for next year.

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You're like crabgrass! Every time I turn around, you're on another part of the lawn!

I plainly lacked Wilkinson's doggedness in pursuing those commanders who might help me up in the world.

Old and cherished ideas die hard.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.

An artist paints his picture not in a few hours but in all the years of experience before he takes up the brush, and it is the same with failure.

My second wife – I was still young then – she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that.

I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

So how do they deal with it? They ignore it. They hope it'll go away Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and it won't go away.

A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the greater work, for time is carried upon a current of forgotten deeds, and events of great moment are but the culmination of a single carefully placed thought,' said Vitali, reciting the ancient words of wisdom as though they were his own. 'As all men must thank progenitors obscured by the past, so we must endure the present so that those who follow may continue the endeavour.

L'insegnamento è l'antagonismo tra insegnante e studente. E' quello che viene prodotto dalla perseveranza dell'uno e la resistenza dell'altro. E' una lunga e dura lotta contro una resistenza naturale

Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.

During this brief interval in the proceedings, we can take a pause to remind ourselves that there is an end to all this in sight and we're almost halfway there. That doesn't mean you can stop paying attention. In fact, you'll have to try harder from here on in.

Focus on the journey, not the destination.

After things settle down, we can all take our turn sticking our heads through the hole in the Sisyphus mural.

The quest, the fight—never the finding or the victory.

Remember always what you set out to get, and please don't settle for less.

Even with all the mayonnaise in the world, you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

People are inspired to do remarkable things to find and be with the one they love.