Quotes About Persistence

If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed, you must not believe the search for it can stop.

Mientras sé que en el mundo hay alguien que hace juegos de prestidigitación solo por amor al juego, mientras sé que hay una mujer que ama la lectura por la lectura, puedo convencerme de que el mundo continúa.

Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have function." — Italo Calvino

hasta que murió, sin haber comprendido, tras una vida entera dedicada a la fe, en qué creía, pero tratando de creer firmemente en ello hasta el final.

Quando sarai stanco di star lì cambierai idea! - gli gridò. - Non cambierò mai idea, - fece mio fratello, dal ramo. - Ti farò vedere io, appena scendi! - - E io non scenderò più! - E mantenne la parola.

And every time, he concentrates on the query of the latest interlocutor, his eyes staring, his chin quivering, his neck twisting in an effort to keep pending and in plain view all the other unresolved queries, with the mournful patience of overnervous people and the ultrasonic nervousness of overpatient people.

Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

Similar stories are numerous and there are many variants, but none is that story. Can I have dreamed it? And yet I know I will have no peace until I have found it and find out how it ends.

Amid all the extraordinary events you were witness to in your lifetime, the most extraordinary was that everything went on, not that everything was collapsing?

Non c'è niente di più disgustoso che di vedersi respinto un consiglio ch'è stato sinceramente studiato con uno sforzo che costò persino delle ore di sonno.

It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place

People who are successful succeed because they consider each mistake an opportunity to learn - not an excuse to quit.

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere.

Ja v?laties k??t bag?ts, jums j?dara tr?s lietas: agri j?ce?as, smagi j?str?d? un j?izdara v?rt?gs atkl?jums.

There are times that you must do everything you can to do everything you must.

awake again, and he could

If we persist in hating in a universe that was made to operate on love, we can expect that it will at last cut us down.

We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .