Quotes About Perseverance

This could be handled. Everything can be handled by he who waits.

don't have them all, yet.

Take a while to find all that out, but I won't lose any

in Yiddish or Hebrew-Russian-English or whatever: the word's nudnik. The best definition I've ever heard came from an Israeli professor of archaeology: "It's a person who is like a woodpecker sitting on your head, all the time pecking you.

at the end of a five-year round of silliness, decided he didn't want to be a four-time loser, so he stopped getting married

It's a game, you know," he said, testing her. "You can't back off in a game and win. You either go balls to the wall, or somebody takes you out and you're no good anymore.

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you'll get back to your trucks. Some of those people, you

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doing this for a long time, honey. I'd be

the guy could fall in a barrel of titties and come out suckin' his thumb.

We don't get to choose our battles.

The last Gold Team geologist decided to retire after we basically had to reattach a limb. For a second time." "Oh." "Well, that's not completely accurate. It wasn't the same limb twice. They were different limbs.

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time. And there's nothing romantic about keeping your head down to avoid getting shot, or trying to save a friend who's been injured, or coming face to face with a creature who is as smart and mean and as terrified of dying as you are, and who wants to make sure that if someone is left on the ground there, it's you and not it.

This novel took me rather longer than usual to write, for a number of reasons but one big one being simply that 2017 was a raging trash fire of a year, filled with horrible people trying to do horrible things and often succeeding. It's harder to bear down creatively when the world is burning.

Listen, you have to understand something. In all of the history of professional sports, the Cubs are the ultimate symbol of complete failure. The championship of baseball is something called the World Series, and it's been so long since the Cubs have won it that no one who is alive could remember the last time they won it. It's so long that no one alive knew anyone who was alive when they won it. We're talking centuries of abject failure here.

Just accept you're drinking from the fire hose and open wide.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

One of Harvey's guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down.

Life goes on even when Jenkins' 'Narrative' is supposed to apply.

Are we agreed that the goal here is survival, not a win?

It was breathtaking the situations that humans put themselves into, and still managed to thrive.

High-risk, high-reward situations where the path to success isn't laid out but has to be cut by machetes through a jungle filled with poison toads.