Quotes About Persistence

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.

Hans Christian Andersen

swim. I think I will sit on it a little while longer, said the duck, as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing.

Laura Ingalls Wilder. She published the first book in the Little House on the Prairie series at age sixty-five.

Dreams never die. Sometimes you think they are dead, but they are just hibernating lie some old bear. And, if the dream has been hibernating for a long time, that bear is going to wake up grumpy and hungry

Oh, you've made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short.

You're not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.

This is how detecting works. You keep going even if what you're doing seems like a momentous waste of time and energy.

There is a very fine line between relentless and stupid," Win said. "Try to stay on the right side of it.

And bad stays. Bad doesn't go away. You bury bad, it digs itself out. You throw bad in the middle of the ocean, it comes back at you like a tidal wave.

I ran down the hill. I went to your place, afraid, I don't know. I just didn't know. But you were gone. I came here, to Lucy. I thought maybe you'd be hiding inside or something. I waited. But you never showed, of course. I searched for you.For years. I didn't know if you were dead or alive. I saw your face on every street, in every bar.

He flipped through the music stations as he drove, searching for some nonexistent perfect song that would be, as Stevie Nicks might sing, "hauntingly familiar" yet not played so often as to beat it into submission. When he did find such a song—a rarity—it was always the last verse, and so the flipping would start anew. When

A permanent companion. You may run a few steps ahead, but that day is always there, tapping you on the shoulder, pulling at your sleeve.

I'm not going to stop digging," Myron said. Wickner adjusted his cap again and began to walk away. "Then more people are going to die." There was no threat in his tone, just the stilted, pained timber of inevitability.

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!

The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected with basketball.

I call myself the world's best faker. It was hard to get piano lessons, it was hard to dedicate myself into reading the music, but it doesn't stop me from touching the keys.