Quotes About Perseverance

This was the nadir, surely. They had no further to fall.

I begin. I write a draft without ever looking back. Without ever touching what's gone before. Because I think it will be shit, so I daren't look back. I write a draft. I start again. I have the text when I start the second draft and then I do the same thing a third time. - To Linda L. Richards, The January Interview

es mejor estar preparados para lo peor y es de sabios aprender a caminar antes de perder el aliento.

By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work even if they don't feel like it. Anybody can get maudlin and decide to write poetry at 11 at night; the question is, can you do it at 8:30 on a Monday morning..?

There is a difference, he said, between the wise man who gives up because the task is beyond him, and the coward who does not even consider trying. You are brave, but bravery is not enough.

Whatever you do, don't look back.

You think I'm finished, so you're leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country.

Con el tiempo todas las cosas se cansan y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas.

When it was all done, Suzanna found her voice, thanking both the grave diggers and their mothers. "After all that digging," said the eldest of the girls, "I just hope he grows." "He will," said her mother, with no trace of indulgence. "They always do." On

I know many a strong man undone by marriage.

She would wait and watch, as she had always watched and waited, hoping that such a puzzle would one day come to her. But if it failed to show itself she would not grieve too deeply, for fear that the mending of broken hearts be a puzzle neither wit nor time had the skill to solve.

Try to finish everything. You'll always find your enthusiasm for a project waning as it goes on, and you'll be tempted by a new idea, but learn to ignore the latter and continue with the former. If you start abandoning work, you set a bad precedent, and establish a pattern for the years to come. And be nice to booksellers: never let them pay for a round.

La oscuridad también ha de desempeñar un papel. Sin ella, ¿cómo sabríamos que caminamos por la senda de la luz? Solamente cuando sus pretensiones se crecen debemos enfrentarnos a ella, domarla y a veces –llegado el caso- someterla durante un tiempo. Después se erguirá de nuevo, como debe ser.

Hold on,' he shouted to the woman, realizing even as he spoke that she wasn't holding anything at all, but guessing that 'hang in there' would have had a terrible ring to it.

Go like hell and go to the grave satisfied." He

It's like asking a gang of kids to lift a Patton tank out of Lake Erie with a few ropes and a raft.

I'm all right," she murmured. Talan

toward the truck. Sam shoved

You can't drive down the middle of the Mall! I damned well can and will so long as we live to tell about it!

mountain passes that

You didn't need to be lucky to be successful. You just needed to work hard.

No oil or water leaks. Don't push the Stutz too hard. We may have rebuilt the engine, but it's over sixty years old. And you can't buy spare Stutz parts at Pep Boys.

When one loves one's work, time and inconvenience have little meaning.

There's a little of Dirk Pitt in all of us.