Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Morris

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Wangari Maathai

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

Yukio Mishima

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.

Walter Kirn

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.

James Joyce

[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.

Napoleon Hill

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

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which 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.

Napoleon Hill

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

Octavia Butler

The big talent is persistence.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Truman Capote

Talent is a valued tormentor.

Robert Rauschenberg

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

Samuel Foote

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Zig Ziglar

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Wayne Gomes

I know the talent is there. I see it all the time.

Neal Stephenson

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Milan Kundera

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

Joseph Addison

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

Roald Dahl

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Eric Ries

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

Kim Cattrall

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

Kenny Cunningham

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Krist Novoselic

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

Kristen Johnston

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

Philip J. Kaplan

I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it.

Temple Grandin

I am a big believer in early intervention.