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Quotes About Persistence

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.
~ Steven Pinker
We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.
~ Steven Pinker
The San engage in persistence hunting, which puts to use our three most conspicuous traits: our two-leggedness, which enables us to run efficiently; our hairlessness, which enables us to dump heat in hot climates; and our big heads, which enable us to be rational.
~ Steven Pinker
Things that can't go on forever can go on much longer than you think.
~ Steven Pinker
progress is an outcome not of magic but of problem-solving.
~ Steven Pinker
Si algo no puede continuar indefinidamente, puede continuar mucho más tiempo del que piensas».
~ Steven Pinker
We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one.
~ Steven Pinker
This is the kind of writer who gets the ball rolling in his search for the holy grail, but finds that it's neither magic bullet nor a slam dunk, so he rolls with the punches and lets the chips fall where they may while seeing the glass as half-full, which is easier said than done.
~ Steven Pinker
Beelzebug n. Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
~ Steven Pinker
My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you, but you drive me back.
~ Buddy Holly
And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.
~ Sidney Lanier
Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.
~ Caroline Leavitt
We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.
~ Diane Keaton
To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.
~ Jack Jones
Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.
~ Warren Buffett
If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.
~ Sarah Burton
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.
~ Ernest Holmes
Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on
~ Lana Del Rey
What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
~ Billy Crystal
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
~ Claude Pepper
...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.
~ Francine Rivers
You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
~ O. Henry