Quotes About Persistence

For years we had the persistent sensation in our life and art - John Updike's phrase - that we were just beginning.

She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

people who are driven by something—or better yet, drawn irresistibly to a goal—do not count being tired as a bad thing.

Failed recipes are never the problem. Failing to maintain or re-create them is.

repetition. "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts," he wrote in The Wisdom of Wooden.

Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways—operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes—makes you smarter. Or to put it a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them—as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go—end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

The road to success is paved with mistakes well handled.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. —Samuel Beckett

Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit farther each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly and intuitively.

Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time.

Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and that no Case can be so low, so despicable, or so empty of Prospect, but that an unwearied Industry will go a great way to deliver us from it, will in time raise the meanest Creature to appear again in the World, and give him a new Case for his Life.

after some time continually driving them from me, and letting

channeling emotions toward a productive end is a master aptitude. Whether it be in controlling impulse and putting off gratification, regulating our moods so they facilitate rather than impede thinking, motivating ourselves to persist and try, try again in the face of setbacks, or finding ways to enter flow and so perform more effectively—all bespeak the power of emotion to guide effective effort.

Hope, in a technical sense, is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right. Snyder defines it with more specificity as "believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be." People

The key to resilience is trying really hard, then stopping, recovering, and then trying again.

If the heart wanders or is distracted," advised Francis de Sales (1567–1622), a Catholic saint, "bring it back to the point quite gently . . . and even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back . . . though it went away every time, your hour would be very well-employed.

emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.

Hay muchos estudios que corroboran la persistencia de la agresividad infantil en chicos como Jimmy.11 Como ya hemos visto en otro lugar, los padres de los niños agresivos suelen alternar la indiferencia con los castigos duros y arbitrarios, una pauta que, comprensiblemente, fomenta la paranoia y la agresividad.

emotional intelligence: abilities such as being able to motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustrations; to control impulse and delay gratification; to regulate one's moods and keep distress from swamping the ability to think; to empathize and to hope.

Todo lo que usted debe saber es si seguirá adelante cuando las cosas resulten frustrantes. Yo creo que, dado un determinado nivel de inteligencia, el logro real no depende tanto del talento como de la capacidad de seguir adelante a pesar de los fracasos».

Don't underestimate the value of practicing the guitar or keeping that promise to feed the guinea pig and clean its cage.

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around

What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years. And that doggedness depends on emotional traits—enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks—above all else. The

inteligencia emocional, características como la capacidad de motivarnos a nosotros mismos, de perseverar en el empeño a pesar de las posibles frustraciones, de controlar los impulsos, de diferir las gratificaciones, de regular nuestros propios estados de ánimo