Quotes About Persistence

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David Baldacci

David Baldacci

If the calculus is much like a cathedral, its construction the work of centuries, it remained until the nineteenth century a cathedral suspiciously suspended in midair, the thing simply hanging there, with no one absolutely convinced that one day the gorgeous and elaborate structure would not come crashing down and fracture in a thousand pieces.

And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do

An dem Tag, an dem du denkst, du kannst nicht mehr besser werden, fängst du an, immer den gleichen Song zu spielen.

It seems to me that all our endless failures are adding up to a magnificent success. It's just not what we had in mind. It's real.

A superior man always assumes complete responsibility, knowing that, ultimately, he has no control at all and everything is out of his hands. He acts with impeccable courage and persistence, expecting nothing but the inherent feeling of completeness he enjoys in the fullest giving of his gift.

The trouble with doing things that others said were impossible, Daniel thought, is that people keep coming up with other impossible things. Eventually they're likely to be right.

One does one's best - Silk

We all live as long as we need to. It just happened that I have something to do that's taken a very long time.

If you don't have calluses on your soul, writing isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

Events are like horses, Hettar told him. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be time to put everything together.

If that's the way we have to do it, then that's the way we'll do it.

Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way.

Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

There's been time this whole time. You can't kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.

Insects all business all the time.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

How to keep the seductive ghost of bliss long absconded from baiting you and hooking you and pulling you back out and eating your heart raw and (if you're lucky) eliminating your map for good.

The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long.

It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.