Quotes About Persistence

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.

There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.