Quotes About Persistence

Man, life's going to keep pushing you sround, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it.

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

You can't destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

They would say anything, because they have dreamed this dream too long to be denied.

I had figured out, long ago, that it paid to do what the competition found difficult, distasteful or even just a waste of time.

It was a continuation. A flow meandering but not changing direction, because the direction had always been the same. The paths might be infinite, but the destination one.

Memory could be a terrible thing .. an instrument of torture that persists in its work long after a man has suffered his time upon the rack.

you just have to keep going and everything will sort itself out.

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

There are some things we might not know, but that doesn't mean we should give up. We can find out what we need to know. We can find out everything

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.

That, Beatrice, is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.

The song is called "The Itsy Bitsy Spider," and it is one of the saddest songs ever composed. It tells the story of a small spider who is trying to climb up a water spout, but every time its climb is half over, there is a great burst of water, either due to rain or somebody turning the spout on, and at the end of the song, the spider has decided to try one more time, and will likely be washed away once again.

There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

So what do we do?... We keep reading, and it just might be our turn to triumph.