Quotes About Persistence

You start out every day with something new and different, and sometimes it looks pretty good and sometimes it doesn't, but you have to go through it anyway.

horses. It took them three more days to come

Chet Cunningham

Let's get after them. Spread out and find

Chet Cunningham

Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

My people have a saying which my father often used. A man whose horse is missing will look everywhere even in the roof.

the words of encouragement which the bedbug was said to have spoken to her children when hot water was poured on them all. She told them not to lose heart because whatever was hot must in the end turn cold.

The boy who persists in asking what happened to his father before he has enough strength to avenge him is asking for his father's fate...

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

interrupt the

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they're not so pushy about it.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child)," Mau's maxim went. "Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

So do Your work, do it in Your timing, and help us to be faithful while You work.

It's okay to fail, it's not okay to quit.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.

People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.