Quotes About Persistence

Vano è dire che gli esseri umani dovrebbero contentarsi della tranquillità: occorre loro l'azione; e la creeranno, se non riescono a trovarla.

you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows.

But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not.

No, it's never easier. The new book doesn't know the first four were ever written.

I read that part over and over again, until I felt I had the pronunciation right. There was quite a good pencil drawing of a phoenix, that mythical bird that was supposed

Life was like a cannon, Beld Yulan had always said. "You've got to clear the empty casings before you can fire again." As

Keep moving! Destroy barriers! See everything!

Some days you get the bear...

commander to a frail man, still jabbing

What impossible matter will he make easy next?

There are no ordained results in this world, I've discovered. The trying is what counts most.

He who follows the feathered inhabitants of the forest and plains, however rough or tangled the paths may be, seldom fails to obtain the objects of his pursuit, provided he be possessed of due enthusiasm and perseverance.

I will clamber through the clouds and exist.

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

Let me write not for fame and laurel, but from the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful even if my night's labors be burnt each morning and no eye ever shine upon them.

There is an old saying well begun is half done - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, Not begun at all till half done; so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.

In the five years that he had dedicated to this work, he had produced an average of only six paragraphs monthly. He could not even remember what he had written in some of the tablets, and he realized that several were filled principally with doodling. However, Ignatius thought calmly, Rome was not built in a day.

John Kennedy Toole

to pursue the gold deposits that were presumed to exist in the great North American territory of Louisiana. There was no evidence of the gold, but this, as ever in such episodes, was no time for doubters or doubting

You can do more! A lot more. If you want a...record you can be proud of, you'll do a heck of a lot more than just what you have to.

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