Quotes About Persistence

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

God doesn't want us to sit around all our lives in a passive way, waiting for something good to happen. He wants us to be proactive, with His help, in seeking out good things for ourselves.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, "I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it." —Thomas Powers

Si una avanza confiada en dirección a sus sueños, encontrará un éxito inesperado en horas ordinarias. Atravesará un límite invisible. No olviden esto. No olviden que el pensamiento puede interponerse. Olviden olvidar. Buscamos olvidarnos de nosotros mismos, sorprendernos y hacer cosas sin saber cómo ni por qué. El camino de la vida es maravilloso. Se hace de abandono.

Q: What did the tree say to the Pilgrim's ax? A: You got me stumped. Q: How many days would it take two Pilgrims to dig half a hole? A: None. No one can dig half a hole! Q: When things went wrong, what could the Pilgrims always count on? A: Their fingers!

El amor ama las cosas difíciles.

Perhaps you would like to start running. You never have tried before, or you did and you hated it, and now you wonder how to begin moving in a way that will keep you going. Get up. Start. Go. Move. Take a rusty first step, like the Tin Man. You will squeak. Go.

Christianity is not about our disciplined pursuit of God, but about God's relentless pursuit of us—to

Sarà più difficile per noi abbattere il muro che abbiamo in testa che per una impresa demolitrice distruggere quello vero.

We're all optimists in our profession or we'd be forced to shoot ourselves. - Joshua Bloch

The really good programmers spend a lot of time programming. I haven't seen very good programmers who don't spend a lot of time programming. If I don't program for two or three days, I need to do it. And you get better at it—you get quicker at it. The side effect of writing all this other stuff is that when you get to doing ordinary problems, you can do them very quickly. - Joe Armstrong

When you're debugging something and then you figure out that not only is the map wrong but the tools are broken—that's a good time.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Play your first 100 games quickly" is an old proverb that stresses the relative unimportance of victory and defeat while you are learning how to play the game.

The reason they all failed and the reason they were big is that someone was already there.

If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you," Jordan said.

Praising ability alone reduces persistence, while praising effort or the processes a person goes through to learn leads to growth mind-set behaviors. Dweck has found this to apply regardless of age.

just failing is not the key; the key is to be systematically learning from failures.

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.