Quotes by Persistence Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over. Seth Godin tactics persistence goal See, Sway, that’s what you get for flunking your pilot’s test six times…which I’m pretty sure is a record of some sort. If not for the actual flunking, definitely for the persistence in pursuing that which you obviously have no talent for. Personally, I wouldn’t let you fly a remote-control kid’s plane. (Vik) Shut up before I find a can opener. (Sway) Sherrilyn Kenyon persistence records kids What we resist persists. Sonia Johnson persist persistence Success is when persistence meets preparation. Sherrilyn Kenyon persistence preparation I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae) Sherrilyn Kenyon persistence loses giving Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling. Stephanie Mills persistence practice friendship I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. Stephen Covey persistence change leadership The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic diversity in our tough and constantly stressful world. And if we do not grasp the fundamental nature of branching as the key to life's passage across the geological stage, we will never understand evolution aright. Stephen Jay Gould persistence keys lying Persistence goes a lot farther than brains. Stephen Young persistence brain If at first you don't succeed, try management. Stephen Hawking persistence perseverance success Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding. Stephen Covey persistence real practice When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Steve Jobs persistence simple inspirational Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent. Steve Martin persistence encouraging uplifting The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply. Susan Cain persistence art thinking Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent. Susan Cain persistence inspiration lying So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. Sun Tzu persistence military war Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience. Susan Orlean persistence writing children We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby. Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha persistence understanding mind The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful. Tacitus persistence hate compassion If you never quit, you're never beaten. Ted Turner persistence quitting never-quit «1415161718192021222324»