Persistent Quotes - Page 12

• You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

  John Lewis

  Giving Up, Pushing, Presses

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.

  Andrew Aydin

  Struggle, Optimistic, Years

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You can choose a persistent issue that has bothered you for years, or it may be something that has recently come up for you. While it's fine to focus on a chronic, physical disorder, don't approach this exercise as a cure - we're focusing on patterns of perception that encourage us to hold onto suffering.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Exercise, Years

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• One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Lying, Conviction, Source

  B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.41, Columbia University Press

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• It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.

  Joan Larkin

  Long, Vision, Process

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on waking up in the morning, do not need to wonder who might have been arrested during the night and what further acts of blatant injustice might be committed against our people later during the day. Our antennae become highly sensitive to vibrations barely noticed by those whose everyday existence is removed from political struggle.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Morning, Struggle, Night

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• I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

  Audre Lorde

  Firsts, Littles, Courageous

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• One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

  Diane Ravitch

  Change, Reform, Irony

  Diane Ravitch (1974). “The great school wars, New York City, 1805-1973: a history of the public schools as battlefield of social change”

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• belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Parent, Age

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• Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

  Starhawk

  Rain, Flower, Wind

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• The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

  Robert Greene

  Persistence, Keys, People

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Asian, Different

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

  Earl Nightingale

  Persistence, Have Faith, Strangest Secret

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

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• The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Support, Pseudoscience, Blind

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Powerful, Champion, Faces

  "Elizabeth Edwards: 'With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too'". Elizabeth Edwards' speech at Consumer Watchdog’s 2007 Rage for Justice dinner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.

  Brenda Ueland

  Faith, Pain, Attitude

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• Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Hollywood

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

  Rian Johnson

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Advice

  Source: collider.com

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• Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

  John Jakes

  Giving Up, Editors, Taste

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• All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

  Hetty Green

  Shrewdness, Dear, Thrift

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• We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain dispassionate and fundamentally unaffected by them. That does not mean to be a cold person. Rather, it means not to be caught and dragged around by circumstances.

  Joko Beck

  Mean, Self, Doe

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• It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

  Baroness Orczy

  Gay, Water, Rolling

  Baroness Orczy (2013). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.151, House of Stratus

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• The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have found so persistent in the soul of man, urging him to purity, and service, and perfect love, is the same energy which, outside and above the soul of man, we name God.

  Frank C. Lockwood

  Love Is, Men, Names

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• All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Practice, Creative

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• Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

  Marion Milner

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.154, Taylor & Francis

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