Quotes About Persistence

Half, Not Half-Assed

How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.

Olga Rudge told a story about Wanda Landowska, the renowned harpsichordist. Landowska had been interrupted in mid-sentence by the arrival of friends and a fuss about tickets, and had come back after a quarter of an hour and continued her sentence from where she left off. 'Is it the working with different voices in the fugues etc. makes her able to keep all the threads in her hand separate and distinct?', Olga wondered, 'like in a way the cantos?

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

there's nothing like having to claw and scrape your way through a sea of molten lava to remind one to keep an eye on the details.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Perkins's first piece of advice came from Hemingway, the only survivor of his great triumvirate of the twenties: "Always stop while you are going good. Then when you resume you have the impetus of feeling that what you last did was good. Don't wait until you are baffled and stumped.

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't quite reach the honey.

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

It's going to be a tedious business, but we will see it out.

When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, and leave the world wondering how the hell you did it.

El periodismo sólo tiene una manera de horadar la realidad, y es la manera que el mar ocupa con la roca: con el tiempo y el empuje constante de olas que a veces son suaves y a veces poderosas.

Travelling in one direction. Yearning to be going the other way. She has lived here. She will survive there.

Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.

Para conseguir el bien que desea, el hombre emprendedor no teme ningún peligro, el trabajador no escatima ningún esfuerzo. Sólo los cobardes y los perezosos no saben ni soportar el mal, ni recobrar el bien que se limitan a desear.

Don't be discouraged or disheartened because transformation gets messy. You are going to have to adjust things on the fly and there is going to be a lot of ambiguity. And sometimes it is going to be two steps forward and three steps back because the next day you will take four and one. You better have a lot of energy and persistence because this is a long-distance race and not a sprint.

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time.

Existence is strife." "To strive is to live.

I always told myself tough times don't last tough people do... Keep pushing

I always told myself tough times don't last, but tough people do... Keep pushing

When Life throws you down, stand back up once again.

When life throws you down, have the courage to stand back up and dust yourself off.