Quotes About Persistence

Yap, yap little dog.

Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep.Days go on and on... They don't end.

Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.

can gauge how important something is to you by how hard you are willing to work to get it.

One thing I had figured out by then was that talent, like everything else, was just a starting point. What counted was what you did with it. I knew I wasn't the most talented guitar player or the best singer or the best writer, but I could do all of those things, and I had a complete vision of what it was going to take to succeed---a vision that included working, working, working.

persisting for change, and the DEAR (Describe, Express, Assert, and Reinforce) technique.

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

just as it had in 1930s Hollywood: "It was, I'll do anything, play anything, say anything, wear anything to become a star," says David's friend Scott Richardson, "and there's nothing wrong with that. And there was a tremendous hunger on the part of the audience for it too. It was that moment in time.

A difficulty is a light ; an insurmountable difficulty is a sun .

Aux yeux de ces amateurs d'inquiétude et de perfection, un ouvrage n'est jamais achevé, – mot qui pour eux n'a aucun sens, – mais abandonné.

Une difficulté est une lumière. Une difficulté insurmontable est un soleil.

Work is never finished, only abandoned.

La meilleure façon de réaliser ses rêves est de se réveiller. The best way of making your dreams come true, is to wake up.

Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!

What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

Success always moves on to the next thing," Milton agreed, as Bloch trailed him up the circular stair. "But failure's timeless, isn't it? Failure is forever.

Real writing, I was beginning to realize, was more like laying bricks than waiting for lightning to strike. It was painstaking. It was manual labor. And sometimes, sometimes if you kept putting the bricks down and let your hands just go on bleeding, and didn't look up and didn't stop for anything, the lightning came. Not when you prayed for it, but when you did your work.

Searching out something important and going astray look exactly the same for a while, in fact.

Beginning are important, too, darling. You should be patient with life.

You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt.

I remembered running for miles looking for an occupied warthog hole with arap Maina, and then stooping to crinkle paper outside the mouth of its den. This was what you did to call out the pig, the noise working to aggravate the animal in some way I didn't understand but rarely saw fail.

Beginnings are important, too, darling. You should be patient with life.

We were involved for nearly five years. Occasionally I would catch a glimpse of what I was doing and bolt away from him, my knapsack stuffed with the tattered draft of my first novel, meaning to finally get serious. But he quickly raced after me, again and again, and the same old chaos resumed.