Persistence Quotes - Page 19

• Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

  James Altucher

  Sides, Side Effects, Enjoy

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• The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, Empathy, Rejection

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Success is when persistence meets preparation.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Preparation

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Ideas, Views

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• After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

  Sam Walton

  Real, Swimming, Secret

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• The Warrior knows the value of persistence and of courage.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Persistence, persistence, persistence. I'm surprised how few entrepreneurs follow up.

  Mark Suster

  Entrepreneur, Follow Up

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• For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.

  David A. Bednar

  Powerful, Deeds, Lines

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• I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise.

  James Cameron

  Spiritual, Data, Afterlife

  "The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron". Book by Rebecca Keegan, 2009.

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• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  Octavia Butler

  Giving Up, Writing, Long

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.148, Seven Stories Press

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• There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.

  Craig Newmark

  People, Listening, Genius

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Rocks, Focus

  "The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

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• A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Ideas, Curiosity

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.65, John Wiley & Sons

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• The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Faith, Humanity, Faces

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• Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Important

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• Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Yield, Self, People

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• Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

  Joanna Russ

  Ignorance

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.46, University of Texas Press

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• So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

  Christian D. Larson

  Letting Go, Determination, Ambition

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.288, Penguin

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• Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend.

  Bennie Maupin

  Determination, Passion, Years

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  Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
  A vision without action is merely a dream
  Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence

  Kevin Gates

  Dream, Vision, Hustle

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• Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

  Heather Hart

  Book, Successful, Skills

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• A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

  Laozi

  Morning, Rain, Men

  "Tao Te Ching". Chapter 3 as translated by Lionel Giles,

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  To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Dream, Requirements, Firsts

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• When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Learning, Simple, Imagination

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• Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Quality, Brutes

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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