Quotes About Persistence

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Populists, by contrast, will persist with their representative claim no matter what; because their claim is of moral and symbolic- not an empirical- nature, it cannot be disproven.

Inventors often have to persist at their tinkering for a long time in the absence of public demand, because early models perform too poorly to be useful.

Ilman itsekuria mistään ei tule mitään.

No code is ever completely solved, you know. —ELIZEBETH S. FRIEDMAN

the Friedmans did it all despite having little to no training in mathematics.

If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

It wasn't going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn't deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn't scare me as much as it used to.

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they've written, they write some more.

If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out. And the journey starts NOW.

The only thing you really get to figure out after a lifetime of study is that there's more stuff to figure out. Frustrating and enlightening at the same time.

Working with those versed in the Mystical Arts was sometimes like trying to knit with wet spaghetti: just when you thought you'd gotten somewhere, it all came to pieces in your hands.

There are two sorts of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I am trying to make you the former.

Regard every "no" as a "not today" and a step closer to "yes.

The truth about networking is you need to do it before you want to see results.

It means that instead of running a couple of large newspaper ads once every few months, you'll run smaller newspaper ads and run them frequently.

Don't push back. Keep asking questions. Insist on drilling down to definitions ("Define Star Trek"), details, and sources. And see if you can outlast your bullying opponent. If you can—if he walks away exasperated—then, despite all I've written about previously…you win.

Lassan kell járnod. Újra kell tanulnod mindent.

You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.

They said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Water never disappears forever. It flows back into the sea, becomes rain, forms a river, fills a pond, or cascades down a mountain. In one way or another, it always returns. —"On the Way of Water," from the journal of Hayden Stone

Sounds like the classic definition of insanity, doesn't it? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

But here's the thing -- you've got questions of your own. The questions won't go away just because you try to ignore them. You may never get answers, but you need to accept that the questions are real and that you have reasons for asking them.