Quotes About Persistence

book ends with the protagonist having the same problem

Get over your fear of finishing. Being able to complete tasks doesn't just matter in kindergarten; it's a key skill for grown-ups.

We must plant the seed of desire, water it with sincere faith. If you think you are beaten you are. If you dare not, you don't. If you want to win, but think you can't, it is almost sure you won't." 14

The trouble with you is,' she said, half-smiling, 'that you're such an optimist. You really believe that if things are hopelessly bad, then they must improve. What nonsense it is! Things can be bad, and stay bad. And they can be endured... Can't you see that we've all got to make the best of things as they are?

The meaning of life is life itself. Life fighting to stay alive in a cold, dark universe.

I think a very key thing for women is to refuse to let anyone tell you you're banned, you're out of fashion, you don't look the right way. Put your energy into a career that will be there for you regardless of the naysayers.

Focus, your way to success." ?#?iampm?

is there something more enduring, lying unchanged beneath he relentless layerings of time?

E, d'altra parte, così come una sola vittoria può riscattarci da molte sconfitte, è pur vero che una sola sconfitta deprezza, se non cancella del tutto, anche una lunghissima serie di successi.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

One priceless bit of advice my great-grandfather fave my grandfather, and my grandfather gave me: "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.

So we survive, it is the world.

the value of hard work is important, for which nothing comes free.

So many pebbles on that beach—millions—all of them worn smooth by the sea's relentless grinding, but not this one. This one had stayed sharp.

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl. Or the program director would slap his leg and say, "Why don't you sit down over here and we'll see if we can get that record played."

Everyday there's something to survive.

Information can neither be created nor destroyed – it's accessible or it's inaccessible, but it is. If you have known it, and you can find the tiniest remnant of association, then you will know it again.

Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again. [Mark] What does 'c-word' mean? [Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don't feel it. Not letting go even when you can't find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end.

And it still goes on. And we still turn away.

The best engineer in the world can't build a 10-story sandcastle.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

You'll be finished when it's done. And it's not done till it's done right.

We installed something Dean called "the persistence drill," which tested their stamina: they had to make consecutive full-court layups for two straight minutes—and if they missed, start over. On the defensive end, they had to make seven straight defensive stops before they could get off the floor.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.