Quotes About Persistence

A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest. But you have to get back to it. You have to pick up the threads, revive your enthusiasm, recapture the mood.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza

Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." What do you despise?

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

We don't die easily. I should be dead now... I will be dead soon... but I can't stop being an ecologist.

They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.

You must be always hungry and thirsty." The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. "Like me.

forever seeking, forever prepared and forever unready.

Cualquier camino, si se sigue hasta el fin, no conduce exactamente a ningún lugar. Escalad tan sólo un poco la montaña para comprobar si es una montaña. Desde la cima de la montaña, no podréis ver la montaña.»

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even the hawks could appreciate these facts.

Minutele de studiu sînt chez??ia succesului. Nu te gr?bi, aÅŸteapt? s? fii sigur.

Se desejos fossem peixes, todos nós lançaríamos as redes.

I was addressing the way a significant life extension has produced in some people, you especially, a profound knowledge of human nature." "We live longer and observe more," he said. "I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything which might lift them out of that false serenity.

And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.