Quotes About Persistence

that mean in terms of weekly income?

Clap on with both hands, sir - never say die - one more heave and we're home, safe and dry.

If you shoot enough, you will eventually have a "boom" of some kind, regardless the firearm you're using. Wait for it, expect it, but do everything you can to keep it from happening.

Patrick Sweeney

When you get down to it, what matters is practice, will and a certain amount of skill. Capacity is a small matter, but if everything else is equal, capacity will win out. That's why we want magazines with lots of bullets in them.

Life doesn't end on the kitchen floor while there is the will to dance.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…

i wish means: would it be nice if.. i want means: if i want it enough i will get it.

I dalje ništa novo. Ali to ne može trajati zauvijek.

Excessive and persistent levels of fear create changes in brain function that then interfere with decision-making processes.

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Left, Right. Steady effort. This is familiar. Most accomplishment is like this . . . Not the result of decisive actions, or moments of truth. No, persistence is the source of the best of what we do, of real change. Even, single-minded persistence.

Life always finds a way

You don't need to improve your performance every time you train—this becomes impossible as you get more advanced—but your sessions should display a general line of progression through the months and years, or you've just been spinning your wheels.

Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

It's not when people notice you're there that they pay attention; it's when they notice you're still there.

Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him.

no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it."1

One sign that determination matters more than talent: there are lots of talented people who never achieve anything, but not that many determined people who don't.

With ambition, you tend to get one step below what you aim for. So unless you try to be the best, you won't even be good.

Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?

the materials for the nest must be collected and woven strand by strand . . . . Such a birdy method may at first seem absurd to the forward-thinking nest maker, but soon it will be found that the pleasures of the project are not derived from efficiency.