Quotes About Persistence

This is why poker players remind themselves that poker is one long game. We would all do well to remember that life is one long game as well.

As you already know, grit is good for getting you to stick to hard things that are worthwhile, but grit also gets you to stick to hard things that are no longer worthwhile.

That we make both types of errors, sometimes sticking too long and sometimes giving up too early, shouldn't be that surprising because whether to stick or quit aren't separate decisions. They are one and the same. Whenever you choose to stick, you are, by definition, not quitting. The reverse is true when you choose to quit.

The endowment effect has obvious applications to quitting behavior. Selling something you own is the equivalent of quitting; you are quitting your ownership. Not selling something you own is a form of persistence. When you are deciding whether to sell your wine, or your car, or your house, you are choosing whether or not to persist in owning those things.

The result is that we'll quit when we're ahead, even if we're giving up good opportunities to win more. If we're behind, we don't want to quit, even if persisting—to try to get to the other side of zero—is more likely to make things worse.

Quitting on time usually feels like quitting too early, and the usually part is specifically when you're in the losses.

But there is one aphorism that actually encourages people to quit: Quit while you're ahead. Just as so many of those inspirational quotes lauding unlimited persistence are bad advice, this single piece of pro-quitting wisdom, despite surviving for more than four hundred years, is no better.

Astro Teller also understands a subtler but no less important point, that we have a tendency, when we butt up against a monkey that is proving difficult to solve, to turn our attention to building pedestals rather than giving up. We prefer that illusion of progress to having to quit and admit defeat.

All these famous people, and countless others, have united behind variations of the expression "Quitters never win, and winners never quit.

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Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

You're never a loser til you quit trying.

Keep the dream alive; hit the snooze button!

If you think something small can't make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.

"Dead last" is greater than "did not finish" which trumps "did not start."

I may not be the strongest. I may not be the fastest. But I'll be damned if I'm not trying my hardest.

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.

You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon.

I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. There was a five-a-side next to the flat, and I used to play there all the time. It was all about football. I wanted to be a professional. That was my goal. I didn't want to be anything other than a footballer.

If there was no fame involved and very minimal money - which is the case for most actors - I'd still be doing it. If I wasn't good enough to be a professional, I'd be an amateur actor.

There isn't a professional athlete that doesn't want to play 12, 13 years.

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.