Quotes About Persistence

You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.

Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable.

The longer it takes me to track you down, the more hope you have of escaping.

Imagine you have intellect but no insight, agendas but no awareness. Your circuitry hums with strategies for survival and persistence, flexible, intelligent, even technological—but no other circuitry monitors it. You can think of anything, yet are conscious of nothing. You can't imagine such a being, can you? The term being doesn't even seem to apply, in some fundamental way you can't quite put your finger on.

rigor vitae

you may be doing everything for the wrong reasons and you may be pissing yourself when you do it, but at least you haven't given up.

The game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death.

Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable, you

If we're so unfit, why haven't we gone extinct? Why? Because natural selection takes time, and luck plays a role. The game isn't over. The game is never over; and so, neither can there be any winners. There are only those who haven't yet lost.

dünyan?n iki buçuk milyar nüfusundan yaln?z bir tek insan üzerinde ?srar?n bir monomaniden ba?ka ad? var m?d?r?

ar?? geç fer?i atla sidreyi a? gör ne var maverada ibrethiz...

Ben daima hayal içinde ya??yorum, fakat... hakikat... beni her yerde koval?yor ve kar??ma ç?k?yor.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

It took me 17 years to get 3000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." —HANK AARON

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. JAPANESE PROVERB

Get knocked down seven times. Get up eight times. —JAPANESE PROVERB

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No writer ever truly succeeds. The disparity between the work conceived and the work completed is always too great, and the writer merely achieves an acceptable level of failure.

Old habits die hard.

There's a will, there's a way my friend.

As a man of sense never at?tempts impossibilities, on one hand, or the other, he is never discouraged by difficulties: on the contrary, he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.

Maxims Hidden in the Text Try, fail, analyze, adjust, try again. John Maynard Keynes cycled through these steps ceaselessly. 178 An imperfect decision made in time is better than a perfect one made too late. 215-216 Plans are merely a platform for change. Israeli Defense Forces slogan. 222 If we ask many tiny pertinent questions, we can close in on an answer for the big question. 263

then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest."23