Quotes About Persistence

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. —THE COMMENTARIES

There's no substitute for time in solving many problems,' Leto said. 'However, you can place too much reliance on it. I can accept no more delays.

La paz exige soluciones, pero nunca llegamos a alcanzar soluciones mientras vivimos; solo trabajamos para intentar alcanzarlas. Una solución fija es, por definición, una solución muerta. El problema con la paz es que tiende a castigar los errores en lugar de premiar los logros.

Show no mercy. Never stop. Mercy is a chimera. It can be defeated by the stomach rumbling its hunger, by the throat crying its thirst.

I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get Dy 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.

Si los deseos fueran peces todos arrojaríamos nuestras redes.

strive for flow-permanence within….

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 life them out of that false serentiy

Mediante tu creencia en las singularidades granulares, deniegas todo movimiento… evolutivo o degenerativo. La creencia fija un universo granular y hace que ese universo persista. No puede permitirse que cambie nada porque de esa forma nuestro universo no moviente se desvanece. Pero se mueve por sí mismo cuando tú no te mueves. Evoluciona más allá de ti y ya no te resulta accesible.

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.

In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand moved then as it does today, when we may be wiser because we are able to look back upon our former condition, and for that very reason have got to admit the courage of our earlier striving in which we persisted even in sheer ignorance.

Se caminhasses num terreno plano, se tivesses a boa vontade de caminhar e desses apesar disso passos à rectaguarda, então tratar-se-ia de um caso desesperado; mas como sobes um pendor tão escarpado como tu próprio visto de baixo, os passos para trás só podem ser provocados pela natureza do terreno e não tens que desesperar.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

I mean, everything beats me, even twos and threes.

Sometimes the Lord wants us to wait and rest in Him. Other times, however, He wants us to press into His kingdom and receive what is rightfully ours in Christ.

Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and he walked out. Amen.

Frank and Joe briefly told the officer on duty they might have a lead and dashed off to their car. They soon reached New Street, where most of the old-fashioned houses had "Rooms for Rent" signs in windows. Number 49 was a large run-down mansion, set far back from the street. Frank and Joe climbed the high steps and rang the bell. A neatly dressed, middle-aged woman opened the door.

Huge live oaks, hung with Spanish moss, partly hid a stately white Southern mansion in need of paint. Wisteria blossoms hung bell-like from vines climbing the walls. The Hardys mounted the steps of the still stately portico, supported by high, once-white round columns. Frank knocked repeatedly on the door. There was no response. As they circled the neglected structure, they rapped on windows, called out, pounded on side and back doors, with no results.

After explaining that they would try to find a glove of similar manufacture, Frank and Joe left.

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation.

I can't sleep and the rain is determined not to quit soliloquizing about you all night. I can't help but overhear, my dear.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.