Quotes About Persistence

I want you to know I won't always be here,' Fertility says, 'but I'll always find you.

But Rachel knows this isn't true. Nobody can stop anything. The people will always be humping next door. The burning cat will always be rocketing like a comet around every house in which they ever live. Nothing will ever be resolved.

She tries to not ask, to stop asking, but the effort is like trying to un-pop a balloon.

When you just cannot stop working. When completing this one project is all you can imagine.

If you're dedicated to becoming an author, nothing I can say here will stop you. But if you're not, nothing I can say will make you one.

In Hell, hope is a really, really bad habit, like smoking cigarettes or fingernail biting. Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break.

Un minuto era suficiente, dijo Tyler; hay que trabajar duro para lograrlo, pero por un minuto de perfección valía la pena el esfuerzo. Lo máximo que podías esperar de la perfección era un instante.

May I never be complete. May I never be perfect. May I never be content.

my father for advice he'd tell you, "The secret to being a successful comedian is to never stop talking until you hear someone laugh." Meaning: Persevere. Meaning: Be determined. Make just one person laugh; then leverage that person and that joke into more laughter. As some people decide you're funny, increasing numbers of people will begin to agree.

Je?li raz przekroczysz jak?? granic?, ju? zawsze b?dziesz j? przekracza?.

Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture." And

Hoffnung ist was sehr Widerspenstiges. Eine Sucht, die man bekämpfen muss.

love is a mission a man goes on every day. A mission a man never completes until death.

What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

love is a mission a man goes on every day. A mission a man never completes until death. In that way, true love is a suicide mission.

Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who survives? Or the kind who gets asphyxiated by the tentacles of woe?

You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race your ran halfway through.

Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.

Miriam's heels are dug so far in, she's up to her neck.

He knows how war goes. It's not many wars, but just one, drawn out again and again, cut up into slices so it seems more manageable.

Follow the right wall. Right meaning the direction—pick the wall to the right of you and keep following it, and if it dead-ends, you stay on the right and turn around. Ultimately in this way, a maze would stretch out like a line—or was it a circle?—and you would find your way to its end.

The desire for perfection is like a pit of wet coal silt: it will grab your boots like iron hands and never let you go. 13.

You're not tasked with desalinating an ocean or training a komodo dragon to cure ebola. I'm saying, sludge yourself into the ass receptacle and peck keyboard keys like a hungry chicken until it makes words.

You're not tasked with desalinating an ocean or training a komodo dragon to cure ebola. I'm saying, sludge yourself into the ass receptacle and peck keyboard keys like a hungry chicken until it makes words. Or pick up one of the tools used by our distant ancestors -- it is a tube filled with the liquid black souls of all the animals we've made extinct -- and use this pen as a scribe would to etch scribbly heretical word-shapes onto dead tree pulp.