Quotes About Persistence

The chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Hughes often said that men fail to make progress in learning not for lack of time or ability but for lack of hard work.

Life always wins.

Face it: You're always just a breath away from a job in telemarketing.

Steven Spielberg once said, which is that people will sit through twenty minutes of anything.

You see, when someone says "it's impossible,' I have this very bad habit, I can't help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.

People sometimes note the transient, ever-changing nature of the Web, but in fact the opposite is true. The Web is a gigantic tar pit that traps and fossilizes every electron that ventures within.

But I also know this anomaly is something you won't let drop until you get to the bottom of it.

Resistance would be futile, and futility itself was, of course, to be resisted.

Douglas Preston

Crazy damn job, looking for dead bodies.

Douglas Preston

I feel like I'm rolling a ball of shit up an endless mountain." "My dear Vincent, Sisyphus would be proud.

J. P. Morgan once said, "If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.

He knew from his Chongg Ran training that the thoughts you most try to banish are the ones that most persistently push themselves back in.

issued a muffled cry and slashed with the knife, but it rent only

We learn, often through painful self-discipline and self-cauterization, those qualities which are supposed to be 'innate' in us: patience, self-sacrifice, the willingness to repeat endlessly the small, routine chores of socializing a human being.

When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them

we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held a course

But thou, like newly-yoked colt, Champing the bit, dost fight against the rein Fiercely; yet futile the device wherein Madly thou trustest; for mere stubbornness Avails the foolish-hearted less than nought.

Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

God always strives together with those who strive.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.