Quotes About Persistence

They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I don't delete. Anything. Ever.

Moving forward was scary. Sometimes you made mistakes. Sometimes you took the wrong path. And sometimes, even when you took the right path, things could go wrong. But Reshmina realized that she wanted—needed—to keep moving forward, no matter what.

People didn't just hand you their secrets. You had to go hunting for them.

But what if Darius really was messing with us? What if the clues he was feeding us were deliberate fakes? What if he knew he was in Arizona all along, and was dropping these clues to throw me off the scent, knowing I would be the one person in the world who would do anything I could to find him?

Julia Gary.

Alan Jacobson

As long as the candle is still burning, it is still possible to accomplish and to mend!

I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.

The race is not always to the swift." "Nor the battle to the strong.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

I have no patience at all.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel ' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Bred to the pavement and steel that became his life's work, he nonetheless marvels at the annual miracle of baby peregrine falcons hatching high atop the George Washington's towers, and at the sheer botanical audacity of grass, weeds, and ailanthus trees that defiantly bloom, far from topsoil, from metal niches suspended high above the water.

Start small, do what you do with enthusiasm and do it very well. Stick to that and growth will come.

Thankfully there is a tiny sliver of my brain that fights back. Without it I would never do anything interesting.

A day working hard on a project I care about is a day well spent. Find something you love. Do it well. Do it a lot.

Nothing endures, except nothing itself.

Gravity ruled, and gravity did not take into account circumstances, or the unfairness of things, or listen to eleventh-hour petitions before reluctantly repealing its laws. Gravity crushed

Gravity ruled, and gravity did not take into account circumstances, or the unfairness of things, or listen to eleventh-hour petitions before reluctantly repealing its laws. Gravity crushed, and near the surface of a neutron star gravity crushed absolutely, until diamond flowed like water; until a mountain collapsed into a millionth of its height.

I was on a moon in one of them. Earth's, I think. And I kept on trying to get inside this alien structure. Fucking thing kept killing me, but I'd always keep going back inside, like I was being brought back to life each time just for that.

Sufficient determination will conquer any natural reluctance.

Nothing worthwhile's ever easy

Keep trying,' Merlin said. 'Keep making mistakes, and learning from them. That's all any culture ever does.