Quotes About Persistence

We just have to show up and pray. Some

The realization that no matter what you do, no matter how many little mistakes you make, you are still probably going to come up with reasonably good, usable compost.

No matter how often he strips the past from her body, she finds a way to wear it again.

work on it." "What do you think of it?

if they were Bible salesmen.

a fingerprint on a bar glass or something, I could run that. Otherwise, I'll need a lot more time to nail him down." "I'll have a shot at it," Stone

Stuart Woods

I like difficulty. It's what makes my job fun.

Sometimes the noes are just as important as the yeses because they represent cul-de-sacs, allowing you to narrow your field of inquiry until you stumble into the heart of the maze.

I like lines, I earn mine.

What I've noticed though is that any attempt to trim out the dark matter takes away some of the good that was also buried in the muck.

traffic, but

Working out must have cost him everything he had, yet he never failed to appear. There was a doggedness about him that I admired. I watched him with interest, ashamed of my own interior complaints.

It wasn't about finding the right answer; it was about patience and diligence. I surrendered to the process, ascribing the same importance to this work as to anything else I did.

Elmore Leonard

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

Your moment will come because you'll make it come.

impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love.

The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come, and you never will outpace your grief.

Actually, you can be bad at something, Lily, but if you love doing it, that will be enough.

I learned how easy it is to give up and become draperies while everyone else is dancing.

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.