Quotes About Persistence

Slow steady progress can erode any challenge over time.

Every interesting thing I've ever done, every important thing I've ever done, every beneficial thing I've ever done, has been through a cascade of experiments and mistakes and failures,

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You have to start somewhere,' he said. 'You climb the top of the first tiny hill and from there you see the next hill.

The notion that he can accomplish a huge amount with a larger time frame, if he is steady about it, is fundamentally his philosophy.

stubborn on vision, flexible on details

Gradatim Ferociter, which translates to "Step by Step, Ferociously.

He had seen firsthand how technology, patience, and long-term thinking could pay off.

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Steady progress toward seemingly impossible goals will win the day. Setbacks are temporary. Naysayers are best ignored.

he just never stopped believing. he never blinked once

steady progress toward seemingly impossible goals will win the day

you climb the top of the first tiny hill and from there you see the next hill

Stay down!" I shouted to the passing crowd, and then because you think of weird things even at times like this, I wondered how you'd say that in French or if they would be able to translate or if, hey, the machine-gun fire would clue them in. Keeping

Enid snorted. "I like you, Mr. Greene. And ah, what the hell. I can't see how it will help you and yet…I've seen some strange shit. 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.

So now what? Kick down the door . . . and then what? Find an old lady in a weird white dress and demand she explain her whack-a-doodle rants? Maybe she had gone upstairs. Maybe Bat Lady was now getting ready for her loony day, changing out of her white dress, heading to the shower . . . Ugh.

Harlan Ellison

Recovery comes slowly. But the writing—which keeps me alive because it's all I've got—goes on.

Even when they tell you "it can't be done, it's never been done, nobody's ever done it that way," all they're revealing about themselves is that they are limited, minimally-talented, inept, lazy to the point where they'll let the job walk out the door then have to stretch their imagination to figure out a way the job can be done, and they are not people you should be dealing with, because they can't solve their own problems, much less yours.

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

When I was eighteen I decided I wanted to be a writer. I attended Ohio State University, and after discovering writing is a thing of the genes, not the schoolrooms, I left college to attempt a professional career behind the typewriter. I

We'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it?

Beckett: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

share this experience with you because to believe that you will prevail, in any endeavor, means everything.