Quotes About Persistence

When a draft looks terrible, I don't try to convince myself that it's actually good or even that someday it will be, only that it's my job to work on it whether it's good or not.

My mother had not let anything go. Inside that self we knew, which might at times appear blurred a bit, or sidetracked, she kept her younger selves strenuous and hopeful; scenes from the past were liable to pop up any time, like lantern slides, against the cluttered fabric of the present.

It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.

Escribir es duro, pero cuánto más escribes, y cuánto más disfrutas lo que escribes, mejor se vuelve.

something make a man crawl over glass and fire to get to again after he get to it once

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

In the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway

I would do what I did best, I thought. I would wait. It was only a matter of time, after all.

Je?eli dadz? ci papier w linie, pisz w poprzek.

Buckley kept the shoe on his dresser, until one day it wasn't there anymore and no amount of looking for it could turn it up.

So much in life is about almosts, not quites.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

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

This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are.

Lord, this is some thick shit Black women must get through.

And you know how some whitefolks is, won't let well enough alone. If they want to bad enough, they gon harass a blessing from you if it kill.

RESISTANCE IS THE SECRET OF JOY! it says in huge block letters.

She say, Nothing but death can keep me from it. She never write.

She was someone who could not be rushed. This seems a small thing. But it is actually a very amazing quality, a very ancient one. She did everything at just the same pace as before, she could tell the time of day or night by the moisture in the atmosphere, and she went about her business as if she would live forever, and forever was very, very long.

But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

it is the sense that something that was alive for a very long time is still alive. Not yet beaten into submission or oblivion by those who kill everything they touch with money.

An objective viewpoint was beyond her; she was single-minded to a fault.

Failure is not fatal until we surrender trying again is the key of glorious victory

But maybe, that's the point. That there are no guarentees. There are no happy endings. But you show up anyway. You don't give up. You NEVER give up. Maybe that's what it takes to be a HERO. -Billy Kaplan