Quotes About Persistence

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Winston Churchill said it well: "Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

Keep practicing until it lives inside you; then it will seem foolishly easy to the unpracticed. — BILL HOLM, "FRIED CHICKEN IN ICELAND

When Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of quantum theory, he said, "Looking back over the long and labyrinthine path which finally led to the discovery, I am vividly reminded of Goethe's saying that men will always be making mistakes as long as they are striving after something.

Really, once the worst happens, it's always happening. It's never not happening.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

The luck gives in first. Luck," continued the gambler reflectively, "is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change. And it's finding out when it's going to change that makes you. We've had a streak of bad luck since we left Poker Flat,-you come along, and slap you get into it, too. If you can hold your cards right along you're all right.

Despair never won any game. Defeat came quickly to those who thought of it.

The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-It on the wall in front of my desk saying "Faire et se taire" (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as "Shut up and get on with it.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

You are killing me, fish...

When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, "Let's say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.

Individuals with a higher degree of confidence work harder, persist longer, are more optimistic and enthusiastic, show more grit and determination, and choose more difficult and higher goals than those with less confidence.

The pressure to get Toy Story 2 successfully made was not the high pressure of a single moment, like giving a speech or competing in a musical competition or sporting event. It was an intense, long-lasting pressure that wore people down. And it came immediately following the three-year grind of making of A Bug's Life, which was ten times as complex as the original Toy Story.

History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.

One can never wait too long.

You can't interrupt the process of making a key once you've started. It lets a kind of hesitation into the iron. That happens and the key will never sit well in its lock.

A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.

Patience, he would have said. When stones start rolling down a slope, it's important not to start running after them right away. Stay where you are and watch them rolling, see where they come to a stop. That's what he would have said.

Para la mayoría de las personas, la vida consiste en algo que no consiguen acabar.

La volontà di vivere. Quella forza che ti fa alzare dal letto ogni mattina quando fa giorno. Tutto può essere sostituito. Ma non questo.

Il concetto di giustizia non significa solo che le persone che commettono reati vengano condannate. Significa anche non arrendersi mai.

History isn't just something that's behind us, it's also something that follows us.