Quotes About Persistence

Railways, like Daleks, have difficulties in getting up hills.

Wherever you are, stay there. I will find you. The world darkens and narrows; the places where we can communicate, where we can meet, are diminishing and departing.

Kilimanjaro West THREE DAYS HE HAD been watching the rain. Still he could not understand it.

Never do it, never make it, too far, too high, too much," and she shouted down to them, "Of course I can, of course I will, watch me, watch me!

No sooner had he finished with a case than another two or three appeared in its place. What was the name of that creature? The Hydra, was it? That was what he was fighting. Every time he cut off a head, more popped into his in-tray. Coming back from a holiday was a nightmare. And now they were giving him rocks to push up hills as well.

Thing about that ladder, Shiv, each rung you climb there's another arse waiting to be licked." "What a lovely image." "We all need some poetry in our lives.

rather than hanging around like a fart under a duvet.

In mathematics, it's unwise to abandon an interesting idea just because it's wrong.

Lucrul cel mai simplu pe care îl ai de f?cut atunci când trebuie s? te miÅŸti, dar nu poÅ£i evada, este s? oscilezi.

keep faith in "the advantages to be expected from perseverance…so long as any chance for success may remain.

As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

But when I got to what I thought was the finish line, at the end of that hustling road, there was no winning—

I showed up

Don't let trends in the market affect your hustle. As the game changes, you need to move and adapt. If the market suddenly switches up on you, don't get stuck—pivot. In 1999, I got offered the chance to guest star on Law

That's what we want to hear, Spike," Ice said. "Keep pushing, man. Keep doing what you're doing. Stay in touch with Al P., and we'll be there to help you when you come before the board.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Patience is a garment which has never worn out.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

THE BIRD AND THE WATER A bird which has not heard of fresh water Dips his beak in salt-water year after year. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

A solved problem is as useful to a man's mind as a broken sword on a battlefield.

There is no purpose in hammering cold iron.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.