Quotes About Persistence

students can solve much more difficult problems when they are not tempted to accept a superficially plausible answer that comes readily to mind. The ease with which they are satisfied enough to stop thinking is rather troubling.

The bat-and-ball problem, the flowers syllogism, and the Michigan/Detroit problem have something in common. Failing these minitests appears to be, at least to some extent, a matter of insufficient motivation, not trying hard enough.

ego-depleted people therefore succumb more quickly to the urge to quit.

En la economía de la acción, el esfuerzo es un coste, y la adquisición de habilidad viene determinada por el balance de costes y beneficios.10 La pereza está profundamente arraigada en nuestra naturaleza.

Los datos sugieren que el optimismo es algo muy extendido, pertinaz y costoso.

The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses. This is where businesses that are losing ground to a superior technology waste their remaining assets in futile attempts to catch up. Because defeat is so difficult to accept, the losing side in wars often fights long past the point at which the victory of the other side is certain, and only a matter of time.

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it." P

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can

If you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around

Quisiera que mi determinación adquiriera determinaciones legendarias.

Aici nu exist? mai devreme sau mai târziu... aici exist? doar munc?, asta facem aici.

Progetti, sbuffò Gauss. Chiacchiere, piani, intrighi. Tiritere con dieci prìncipi e cento accademie prima di poter appoggiare un barometro da qualche parte. Quella non era scienza. Ah, esclamò Humboldt, e cos'era allora la scienza? Gauss tirò dalla pipa. Un uomo da solo seduto alla sua scrivania. Un foglio di carta, tutt'al più un cannocchiale davanti alla finestra con un cielo terso. E quest'uomo che non si arrende fino a quando non capisce. Forse quella era scienza.

Man kann dem Schrecken gegenübertreten, bis er nachgibt und sich zurückzieht.

AND NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU FAIL, WHILE LIFE REMAINS YOU CAN ALWAYS GIVE YOURSELF ANOTHER CHANCE EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE WILL; CAN ALWAYS CHOOSE TO TRY AGAIN.

memory's malfunctions can be divided into seven fundamental transgressions or "sins," which I call transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.

The only thing more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack is finding a needle in a needlestack.

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

Café ? Le bureau du divisionnaire Coudrier est un vieux souvenir qui n'a pas changé.

Nous autres les élèves, nous passons, vous, vous restez! Nous sommes libres et vous en avez pris pour perpète. Nous, les mauvais, nous n'allons nulle part mais au moins nous y allons! L'estrade ne sera pas l'enclos minable de notre vie!

No work again today, huh? You should be pounding the pavement instead of playing computer games. At least get some exercise. How do you expect to find a woman if you're all pasty and scrawny? Guess the family name's dying with you. No work again today, huh?

Next time you're overwhelmed, just remind yourself that this isn't completely foreign. This isn't square one. Things are different, but they're still a little the same.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us either to fortune or failure. — Jim Rohn

He would be painstaking in his approach, meticulous. For there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.

Sabiam que andavam a ser caçados e tentavam não se manter muito tempo no mesmo sítio. Mas o medo tornava-os descuidados. O medo tornava-os alvos fáceis.