Quotes About Persistence

And the more you do to force it in, the less of what you wanted to acquire in the first place remains. The vast majority of acquisitions fail for this reason.

diligence wins battles.

You need to have strong faith in the next draft, that you will be a little smarter and wiser by the time this draft is finished and your only responsibility is to get there. In a way, the draft you write now is a gift to the future version of you.

Be relentless "The world responds to action, and not much else." — Scott Adams

all problems can be solved if enough intensity and focus are applied.

To start big projects, you must have the capacity for delusion. All the rational people, despite their brilliance, are too reasonable to start crazy things. And working against us in this sense was that we'd spent the day walking in the footsteps of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, spurring us all to believe in our grandest dreams.

refuse to quit until every possible alternative has been explored.

Many smart people can recognize when there is a problem, but few expend the energy to find a solution, and then summon the courage to do it.

Persistence at a poorly defined problem is futile, and talent applied to an unsolvable problem is worthless. The challenge is knowing how to define problems with enough constraints to help creativity, but not so many that creativity, or any solution, is impossible. Mastering this skill is one secret that explains who successfully makes things and who doesn't.

To start big projects, you must have the capacity for delusion. All the rational people, despite their brilliance, are too reasonable to start crazy things.

1. Break assignments into smaller pieces 2. If there is no progress, go to #1 and repeat.

To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.

Bronchial fix, lung lining expanding again, pounding holes, stabbing me in the back, bacterial traitor, wheezing breath from me, giving me the wonderful opportunity to take panting lessons from Rover.

sweat streaming killing hard in over kill i wake up screaming there's nothing to be done but go at it again

i've been killed so many times, i can't begin to count the carcasses. my dreams provide plenty of ammunition for me, murdered most mercilessly and it never freaking ends,

no matter how bad a situation may seem, we can learn from it and assign a new meaning to it that moves us closer to our goals.

Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives. It's about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.

What's the point of doing anything if it's easy? It's so much more valuable when a challenge has to be overcome.

it doesn't matter what the challenge is -athletics, business, romance, health, academics, the arts- the rule for getting up is the same. you just get up!

This is the power of finishing first. This is the power of showing up, leveraging your strengths and weaknesses, and outworking everyone. My world would never be the same.

The greatest indicator of success is longevity, and longevity is only achieved by taking small, meaningful, consistent steps in the same direction.

This is where grace lives - in the jumping in. In showing up, day after day. In trying and learning and trying again and again.

Not only should we expect lots and lots of failure, but we should also be grateful when it shows up because it means we are on the right track. Failure is a mile marker on the pathway to finishing first.

I don't know of any skater in the history of skating who fell down and just stayed there.