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persistence white maintenance
Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo. Wesley Morris
persistence people danger
What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger. Wangari Maathai
persistence long fruit
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised. Yukio Mishima
persistence quality needs
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down. Walter Kirn
persistence independence apathy
[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity. James Joyce
persistence goal weakness
You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power. Napoleon Hill
persistence opportunity goal
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success Austin Phelps
persistence winning sea
Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish. John D. Voelker
persistence guarantees-that results
Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable. Paramahansa Yogananda
firsts helping truth-is
Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do. Carl Jung
firsts losing sometimes
Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves. Richard Paul Evans
firsts loses
We can only lose what we have first claimed.
firsts half educator
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. Russell Baker
firsts causes first-date
Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident. Russell Brand
firsts needs construction
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. Umberto Eco
firsts pajamas want
First of all, Jericho...Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back! Triple H
firsts cuckoos cry
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. William Wordsworth
firsts murder follow-me
I know death follows me, but I murder him first. Tupac Shakur
succeed puberty
By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
succeed courses
God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course. Rose Macaulay
succeed failing
When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed Rich Mullins
succeed genius certain
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius. Roger Ebert
succeed decided
A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished. William Arthur Ward
succeed path choosing-one
I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own. Rick Riordan
succeed individual-success individual
Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself. Pat Summitt
succeed kind obscenity
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. Potter Stewart
succeed failing united-nations
The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure. Barbara Hepworth