Quotes About Persistence

Louis Eliopulos, who works on cold cases for the Naval Criminal Investigator's Service, is fond of saying, "If they were easy cases they would have been solved already.

Duane just kept working, not even looking up.

Es gab einen, der ein halbes Leben an einem Gedanken saß - und die andere Hälfte für diesen Gedanken.

He who limps is still walking.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

He who limps still walks.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

At that time, Charlie Parker was trying to work up on something," recalled his friend Clarence Davis, "but he didn't know what he was doing. He was fishing, but nothing was biting.

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.

By the way — I don't want you to think that in my own mind I have "given up the case", as we doctors so charmingly put it. On the contrary, it's just at this point that I refuse to give in, even if things continue as they are for another year, another five years.

Ben seni bütün bir hayat boyunca sevmekten yorulmad?m.

Ä°nsan zekas?n? hiçbir ÅŸey tutkulu bir ÅŸüpheden fazla keskinleÅŸtirmez, karanl?klara uzanan bir izin peÅŸinden ?srarla gitmek kadar baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey o güne kadar olgunlaÅŸmam?? zekay? geliÅŸtirmez.

ich mußte immer wieder aufstehen, so kalt war es im ensetzlichen Dunkel. Aber ich wartete, wartete, wartete auf Dich wie auf mein Schicksal.

Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doué d'une volonté prométhéenne, veut arracher à la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui déchirer le cÅ"ur.

la suma de todas las dificultades vencidas es la que, al fin y a la postre, da la medida de un hecho y del hombre que lo lleva a cabo.

The strongest man is always the man of one idea. Devoting to it all his energy, his will, his intelligence, his nervous tension, he often becomes irresistible. Mary Baker was one of these exemplars among monomaniacs, for from 1862 onwards she possessed, or rather was possessed by, one idea and one only.

nothing that one has ever done with devotion is done in vain.

As is the case with all those of a tenacious nature, he lacked any sense of the ridiculous;

Ojalá su impaciencia consiga más que mi paciencia.

La vera universalità non può venire da fugaci letture o discussioni, ma va conquistata con anni e anni di ardenti fatiche.

El que hace una concesión no puede ya detenerse.

Sólo porque creía conocer un secreto le fue posible a Magallanes descifrar el secreto geográfico más grande de su época. Sólo