Quotes About Persistence

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

That word process is key. You don't just "find" answers to complex life problems (or any type of complex problem, including business ones). You work your way, gradually, toward figuring out those answers, relying on questions each step of the way.

It's one thing to see a problem and to question why the problem exists—and maybe even wonder whether there might be a better alternative. It's another to keep asking those questions even after experts have told you, in effect, "You can't change this situation; there are good reasons why things are the way they are.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm." But how does one learn to perform that "trick" of "failing enthusiastically"?

A journey of inquiry that (hopefully) culminates in change can be a long road, with pitfalls and detours and often nary an answer in sight. That's why it can be helpful to approach inquiry systematically, as a step-by-step progression. The best innovators are able to live with not having the answer right away because they're focused on just trying to get to the next question.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it . . . if you think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing how quickly you get through those five thousand steps.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.

He who attempts to transform mud into diamonds should expect to have to wash his clothes often," Chiun had said, and this had

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

When do we give up, Julie?" he said. "I don't know," I said. "Maybe you can't even if you want to.

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.

Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

You push on, do your best, and if you are really brave, you dream big, doubts and fears be damned. This is the stuff that miracles are made of, and the proof was there to see, on February 22, 1980.

Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

I could never get a clue what she wants, but she's almighty persistent, I'll tell you that.