Quotes About Persistence

I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.

Only a few, determined individuals possess the resolve and focus to become the best at anything; and I wanted to be one of them.

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

in rock'n'roll it wasn't the winners but the losers who made for the most compelling stories.

In a sense, it's all about running away. I've been running all my life. Where I'm going … Who the fuck knows? But that's not the point. The point is just to see how long you can keep going strong. And right now there is no end. The way I feel now, I can keep going for a long time.

took those drugs that made me search my soul, and try to see what I was all about … But the drugs back-fired. I took acid, and it squashed my ego down a little bit, and it hurt my feelings that I didn't have what someone else might have had. When you go through too much of that, it's like an attack you have inside your head. You won't accept it like that. I want it to be perfect! Music is perfect! 'But I never ever quit. See, I'm not a quitter.

Curiously we did it all over again when we made the Live At Pompeii film, this time using another dog, called Mademoiselle Nobs. On the positive side, even when hard pressed, at least we resisted the temptation to construct an entire album of barking dogs, and to audition a clutch of session dogs desperate to make it in the music business.

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

Do not accept second best.

Nico Hulkenberg

Contempt for others, like a dog driven from the hall, always found its way back.

What other pearls of wisdom has she dropped in your ready ear?

You can never walk away. They'll always find you. You matter for your blood. And your mind." "Which you made." "To keep you safe.

She could no more stop thinking than stop breathing.

Oh, you won't kill yourself, you're too self-centered and you're too stubborn to go mad. So that means you'll have to cope.

Stay in the world, Aud. Stay alive inside. Promise me. Stay alive.

Classifying is the first step toward understanding; persisting in classifying is the first step toward confusion.

They have buried metaphysics so many times that it must be considered immortal.

Hâtez-vous lentement, sans perdre courage. Vingt fois sur le métier, remettez votre ouvrage. Polissez-le sans cesse et le repolissez. Ajoutez quelquefois et souvent effacez.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

He who leaves the game wins it.