Quotes About Perseverance

When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Be stimulated by rejection

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

Stumbling is not falling.

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.