Quotes About Persistence

No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.

I might think I can't take it any more, that I can't go on any more, but one way or another I get past that.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow

When Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: I spent my days pursuing the nothingness - le rien - it creates. My job is to create that void, that rien . Hunting knife

No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.

I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness.

I miss you something awful sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster.

Like a button on a shirt buttoned wrong, every attempt to correct things led to yet another fine --not to say elegant-- mess.

not everything was lost in the flow of time [.....]we truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.

To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm. This is the important thing for long-term projects. Once you set the pace, the rest will follow.

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't some­ thing that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you.

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there - to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

El destino se lleva siempre su parte y no se retira hasta obtener lo que le corresponde.

Kino pulled the covers up, shut his eyes, and covered his ears with his hands. I'm not going to look, not going to listen, he told himself. But he couldn't drown out the sound. Even if he ran to the far corners of the earth and stuffed his ears full of clay, as long as he was still alive those knocks would relentlessly track him down. It wasn't a knocking on a door in a business hotel. It was a knocking on the door to his heart. A person couldn't escape that sound.

It's sometimes hard to avoid losing. Nobody's going to win all the time.

The way I see it," Menshiki said, "there's a point in everybody's life where they need a major transformation. And when that time comes you have to grab it by the tail. Grab it hard, and never let go.

Trouble fell like rain from the heavens, and we just couldn't get enough of it. We went around picking up the stuff and cramming our pockets full of it. Even now I can't figure out why we persisted in doing that. Maybe we mistook it for something else.

Muscles are hard to get and easy to lose. Fat is easy to get and hard to lose.

Khi b?t ??u Ä'i tìm nh?ng l?i bi?n há»™, ng??i ta s? gi? mãi cái thái Ä'á»™ Ä'ó su?t c? ??i

I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring.

I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.