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"We are all part of the life cycle. Like a seed we are born, we sprout, we grow, we mature and decay, making room for future generations who, like seedlings, are reborn through us. As for the persistence of consciousness, deep down, I thought, 'How can we know?' Perhaps we simply return to the elements; we become earth and air and fire and water. That seemed all right to me."
"Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place."
"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."
"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence."
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."
"Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward."
"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."
"Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith."
"Failure cannot cope with persistence."
"The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works."
"The world is full of educated derelicts."
"One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling."
"Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target."
"You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success."
"Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life."
"So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence."
"Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects."
"The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel."
"There is a budding morrow in midnight."
"Little strokes fell great oaks."
