Quotes About Persistence

but you still need to state them every time you bring up the expenditure of energy.

In addition, in the same way that you took as much time as you needed to write out the best possible version of yourself, you also wrote out a secondary and a tertiary version as well. This will ensure that you can keep talking about yourself intelligently if the sale drags on, forcing you to execute additional loops.

Remember, it's not the job of salespeople to turn nos into yeses; it's simply not what they do. Instead, we turn "Let me think about it" into a yes, and "Let me call you back" into a yes, and "I need to speak to my wife" into a yes, and "It's a bad time of year" into a yes.

A basic rule of mathematical life: if the universe hands you a hard problem, try to solve an easier one instead, and hope the simple version is close enough to the original problem that the universe doesn't object.

Excellence doesn't persist; time passes, and mediocrity asserts itself.*

impossible to walk across the street,

basic rule of mathematical life: if the universe hands you a hard problem, try to solve an easier one instead, and hope the simple version is close enough to the original problem that the universe doesn't object.

when you're working hard on a theorem you should try to prove it by day and disprove it by night.

I kept having those "What's the point of ...?" moments, but plugged away at life pretty consistently, anyway.

Waiting is hard, but sometimes there's nothing else we can do.

Ése es el sentido de la vida, de la partida. No rendirse. No rendirse jamás.

S'adonà que anava a les palpentes, entossudit en una recerca estranya, probablement inútil. Però en part havia continuat fent allò per la mateixa raó del començament: no estar quiet, moure's, fer alguna cosa, fugir. Igual que en Raül?

El amor es lo único a lo que no se puede renunciar, porque está ahí, siempre. Aparece y desaparece a su antojo sin que puedas hacer nada...Las personas buscan el amor lo mismo que las plantas al sol.

There's no quick or magical way to lose weight. You just have to do it the natural way - diet and exercise and stick to it - and be able to do it at your own pace.

Cuando esté en un callejón sin salida, salga por donde entró".

Dice un refrán japonés que «es mejor viajar lleno de esperanzas que llegar». La frase tiene la virtud de ayudarnos a entender la importancia de ponerle ilusión al camino.

Accelerate. Immediate. Be incessant. Be disindividuated.

Bu yarasan?n seni çok sevdiÄŸine inan?yor musun?" "Evet, seviyor." "Yürekten mi?" "Bundan hiç kuÅŸkum yok." "Öyleyse arkandan geleceÄŸine de inan. Ortaya ç?kmakta gecikebilir. Yine de bir gün seni kesinlikle bulacakt?r.

And the reason I am the way I am is that I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is this: You fall down. You get up. That's it. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

Nur das Schwierige ist anregend, nur der Widerstand der uns herausfordert, kann unser Erkenntnisvermögen geschmeidig krümmen, es wecken und in Gang halten

se a gente segue assim, para trás ou para a frente, vê que não pode se partir o fio da vida, mesmo que está podre nalgum lado, ele sempre se emenda noutro sítio, cresce, desvia, foge, avança, curva, pára, esconde, aparece...

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

you must study the endgame before everything else.

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.