Quotes About Persistence

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

If you allow things like this to ruin your day, pretty soon you'll wake up and your life will be nothing but an endless string of ruined days that stretch as far back as you can remember." She turned toward the window, her profile soft and blurred in the afternoon light. "Believe me, if you let disappointments take you too far, you'll end up getting lost. You'll never find your way out of it.

The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I'm vertical.

The real thing was how I felt: like a root groping in darkness for water it knows is there, that it must have. Nall was that water.

There comes a time when you have to let go of the New Yorker fantasy in service of justing getting on with it [writing].

Their fathers had been slaughtered over the stretch of a half-century by the Persians, their mothers raped. And still they had not caved in.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I work to stay alive.

The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I'd measure my progress in inches. One more inch I've swum—one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody's river can bring you down.

The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have never been in a dark room with a mosquito

Betty G. Birney

lower, until school

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.

A thing that is worth doing at all is worth doing badly... le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

I don't think you ever get over it, but you do get through it.

Women can't advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls." Dix

Never is a strong word, Domino. Life often has a way of negating nevers.

I'm a carpenter by trade and frankly, my father's paper is not very successful. He's determined to keep at it, but sundown papers can be difficult to keep afloat." He saw Lee's confusion and explained as he had to Spring. "Sundowns are newspapers worked on after the editor gets home from his day job.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going," he'd emphasized, quoting one of his favorite Beverly Sills lines.

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.