Quotes About Persistence

Darling Cockroaches of the Highest Order, hard underthings of hard underworlds, I am utterly suspicious of advice.

Dreams comes easy,,, but a determine soul plays it to reality...

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun just started";

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

There's a fine line between heroic persistence and foolish stubbornness. Sometimes the best kind of grit is gritting our teeth and turning around

Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit.

If you wanted to be original the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

If you want to be original, "the most important possible thing you could do," says Ira Glass, the producer of This American Life and the podcast Serial, "is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.

When people are resistant to change, it helps to reinforce what will stay the same

To be an original one must not only come up with new ideas but also Sherpa those ideas into the wider world, battling skepticism, incomprehension, and outright hostility in the process. . . .

The worst thing is never the last thing.

I guess the lesson is, wherever you go, life follows you there, hunts you down, and abducts you (just kidding).

Casement quoted an African proverb: "A man doesn't go among thorns unless a snake's after him—or he's after a snake." He added, "I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.

An ending to my story," he said. "My story's ended ten times already, and yet it never stops. The end keeps coming for me, and yet it takes everyone else. Orphans, friends, commanding officers, I outlast them all.

If everyone who had it shitty and bit the dust became a fart," he said, "the world would stink to the treetops, you know what I mean?

But I held her in my heart, and would stay with her all my days, even if a great many of them were trying ones. If love dictated only in Russian, I would learn that thorny tongue.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Wgryz? si? jak piekielny dym pod jej powieki I w g?owie utkwi? na wieki. B?d? jej my?li czyste przez ca?y dzie? brudzi? I w nocy j? ze snu budzi?.

Failure is always an option.

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

Most people think the Race is a sprint, but it's really not. It's a marathon. It's about maintaining a lead, keeping the pace, and doing it the right way.

couldn't quite exorcise

The making and doing of the image must persist, until the aesthetic ecstasy that demonstrates and proves the finality and wholeness of the image is fully and unambiguously evident.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.