Quotes About Persistence

I had to twist Harold Freund's arm repeatedly to get him to build a bakery just to service our California stores. Freund now has the largest, most automated bun plant in the world. It produces eight thousand buns an hour for McDonald's. It also has a plant in St. Petersburg serving all of Florida, and another serving all of Hawaii. Fred

If you believe in something, you've got to be in it to the ends of your toes. Taking reasonable risks in part of the challenge, It's the fun.

the basics have to be stressed over and over. If I had a brick for every time I've repeated the phrase QSC and V (Quality, Service, Cleanliness, and Value), I think I'd probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them. And the operators need the stress on fundamentals as much as their managers and crews. This is especially true of a new location. So

Our ability to create models—virtual realities—in our brains, combined with our modest-looking thumbs, has been sufficient to usher in another form of evolution: technology. That development enabled the persistence of the accelerating pace that started with biological evolution. It will continue until the entire universe is at our fingertips.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it's stuck. —MARVIN MINSKY

If you have difficulty reaching your goal, keep the goal, but change your strategy.

Los insatisfechos siempre creen merecer más de lo que les dan y de esas quejas se hace un mundo de pusilánimes e inútiles. De gente que le pide a la tierra fruto sin haber puesto antes empeño.

Hay cosas que no pueden olvidarse, como el ruido de los aviones o el frío en las manos.

Un dragón al que se le ve el final de la cola no es un dragón demasiado peligroso, y un tren de diez vagones puede pasarte por encima pero no puede estar pasándote por encima toda la vida.

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

Some people find the golden ring swimming in their cereal in the morning, slip it on their finger and go skipping through life. And others drop it in the sand at the beach & spend the rest of their life digging to get it back.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination.

when you constantly expect that which you persistently desire, your ability to attract becomes irresistible. Desire connects you with the thing desired and expectation draws it into your life. This is the Law.

Cô không bi?t chính xác nó ? Ä'âu và cách duy nh?t ?? tìm ra nó là cô ph?i ? Ä'ó

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

Since I started, like, 200 years ago, I've always wanted to direct and write. But I've been so busy - and fortunate and lucky - as an actor.

I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

I'll work my butt off to do something well.

There's no offseason in this business. I'm just going to make sure I train my butt off in and out of the ring.

I gave up my bread and butter to be an actress.

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.