Doggedness Quotes

• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Function

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• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Persistence

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

  Daniel Goleman

  Persistence, Emotional, Enthusiasm

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

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• The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Art, Dumb, Heroism

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Character, Passion

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2004.

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