Zitat des Tages über Beharrlichkeit / Persistence:
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.
Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.