Quotes About Persistence

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

A football scholarship to the University of North Texas, where he'd stayed on to earn a PhD.

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

It is not everyone that can get to Corinth.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Idiot, yes. All my life I struggled. That is the mark of an idiiot.

When you've been at the bottom, nothing looks that bad, and I had been at the bottom for quite a while. The bottom was normal for me. But the bottom got worse.

Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1926), is still in print eighty years after it was written. I

Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average.

I realize I've sometimes raced over the years like an ice skater fleeing the devil on a frozen river.

In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I spoke to 242 people, and 217 of them said "no.

Just because others cannot see your vision doesn't mean that vision isn't achievable.

Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you've done that, dream bigger!

When I was growing up, playing hockey was what I thought about when I woke up and when I closed my eyes to go sleep. I was still thinking about hockey, hoping I would have a dream that involved the game.

The desire to be one's true self is ever persistent.

The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.

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Never give in and never give up.

Never give in,never give up,never surrender no matter what!