Quotes About Persistence

My best advice to a comedy writer is to set a quota and stick to it. It needn't be a demanding quota, but it must be inflexible.

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence. At the same time, presistence in nonviolent struggle contributes to much greater chance for success than if the resisters had chosen to fight a militarily-prepared opponent violence

hefted the pickaxe and attacked the three-inch-thick layer of gray-white ice. Frozen chips and droplets of water speckled his face as he swung the chopping tool. He pushed and scooted the bigger chunks to the edge of the trough with the pickaxe, then gritted his

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

Why don't you call her?" "She doesn't answer," Chase said. "She may be somewhere that there's no cell phone service or she may have her phone turned off." He'd be embarrassed to say how many times he'd tried. That's what guilt—in other words, meddling—did to a man.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

I may take a while to learn from my mistakes, but I get there eventually.

Stories are like that. They'll wait for you until you can come back to them.

She'd been trying to improve her written Korean from appalling to merely bad.

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.

Gennifer Choldenko

Gennifer Choldenko

She ignores me. Clearly there's no stopping her until she's read every last word.

Brian kept forcing them to go back out on tour.

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Note: WAAAAAAY

Pioneers are people with arrows in their backs")

Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.

For he that naught n' assaieth, naught n' acheveth.

What thyng we may nat lightly have,Thereafter wol we crie al day and crave.

Thurgh thikke and thurgh thenne.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

No empty handed man can lure a bird