Quotes About Endurance

but the urge to continue was stronger than the desire to quit.

Practical dreamers DO NOT QUIT!

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every

The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

be. So I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth.

Many people labor in life under the impression that they are doing something right, yet they may not show solid results for a long time. They need a capacity for continuously adjourned gratification to survive a steady diet of peer cruelty without becoming demoralized.

Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules.

robust" is certainly not good enough. In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time—yet our planet has been around for perhaps four billion years and, convincingly, robustness can't just be it: you need perfect robustness for a crack not to end up crashing the system.

some of those who traded options (I called them option buyers) had remarkable staying power and I wanted to be one of those.

triggers some feeling of bitterness.

An idea does not survive because it is better than the competition, but rather because the person who holds it has survived! Accordingly

the truth came out eventually, and his mission ended up paying off, with some delay.

Otherwise they become fragile. That, I completely missed.* Organisms need, to use the metaphor of Marcus Aurelius, to turn obstacles into fuel—just as fire does.

time is equivalent to disorder, and resistance to the ravages of time, that is, what we gloriously call survival, is the ability to handle disorder.

Lindy" is what ages in reverse, i.e., its life expectancy lengthens with time

but we always came back more resilient than before. We are now invincible.

did not cost him anything—except the emotional drain.

Most people give up before the rewards.

occasional starvation produces some health benefits and

Empirically, if you want an author to cross a few generations

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread out over a longer one.

So the longer a technology lives, the longer it can be expected to live.

In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time.