Quotes About Persistence

As a young child in Rome, he wrote out the entire score of a nine-voice religious work after hearing it twice.

Practice doesn't make perfect," he used to say. "Perfect practice does.

As with everything else in life, the instructions remain the same, despite changing circumstances: Chop wood, carry water.

Hey, dummy, you might want to take the time and learn to fly before you do this again!

We watch Paracelsus in Basle as though seeing a man run headlong toward a precipice. Like an indestructible lunatic, he will do so again and again throughout his life.

Until you caught a serial killer, it was impossible to know for sure that he existed.

My life is a train of unfinished tasks, one railcar after another of half-finished efforts, with no caboose in sight.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

I have never yielded to reality.

And yet, even if one person finds his way … that means there is a Way. Even if I personally fail to reach it.

that thing that's taken refuge there in that zinc bucket, without a wife, a career, a conapt, or money or the possibility of encountering any of these, still persists. For reasons unknown to me its stake in existence is greater than mine.

I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest and want to quit. But you will have to stop searching for me because I will never stop searching for you.(Mercer)

Blood, Herr Reiss, can never be eradicated like ink.

But look at the aspirations of that rabbit and look at his failing. A little life trying. And all the time it was hopeless. But the rabbit didn't know that. Or maybe did know and kept trying anyhow. But I think he didn't understand. He just wanted to do it so badly. It was his whole life, because he loved the cats.

Stuart said, "I hid once in the sidewalk. Do I have to do that again?" He looked around at the rest of them, seeking an answer. "Yes," Bonny said. "Then I will," he said. "But I came up out of the sidewalk; I didn't stay there. And I'll come up again.

A realidade é aquilo que não desaparece, quando se deixa de crer nisso.

Still enough of us once more to build and hope and make a few simple plans.

You will have to stop searching for me because l will never stop searching for you.

Und wenn Sie einmal gewesen sind, werden Sie für immer existieren.

Even if one person finds a way, it means there is a way.

We're all going to be little brown gophers. We'll all have to learn to dig down in the rubble and find the good things, because that's where they'll be.

I am. I shall always be.