Persistent Quotes - Page 9

• Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And because of this persistent inquiry about how and why, it goes on missing all that is beyond the boundaries of machines. Life is beyond the boundaries of machines.

  Rajneesh

  Missing, Mind, Inquiry

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• Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Religious, Common Sense

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.18, Discovery House

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• The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Funny, Humor, House

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• The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.

  Dan Quayle

  Political, Challenges, Unemployment

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• Be persistent in good actions.

  Muhammad

  Quality, Action, Good Actions

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• You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

  Reid Hoffman

  Flexible

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• Be persistent and never give up. I had to deal with facing stereotypes and had a lot of people doubt me and my ability to drum, but I didn't let it phase me. You just have to believe in yourself. And of course, PRACTICE.

  Jess Bowen

  Giving Up, Believe, Practice

  Source: entertwine.net

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• I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals; it is a matter of staying the course, being consistent and persistent, and making it happens.

  Urijah Faber

  Goal, Champion, Matter

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than day and night — is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

  Thomas Hughes

  Cheer, Night, Earthquakes

  "The Manliness of Christ". Book by Thomas Hughes, Part VIII, 1879.

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• The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

  Robert Greene

  Persistence, Keys, People

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

  Starhawk

  Rain, Flower, Wind

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• belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Parent, Age

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• There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Sleep, Pride, Night

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• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Determination, Goal

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.155, Jaico Publishing House

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• Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Asian, Different

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

  Marcia Whicker

  Leadership, Self, Good Leader

  Marcia Lynn Whicker (1996). “Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad”, Praeger Publishers

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• We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain dispassionate and fundamentally unaffected by them. That does not mean to be a cold person. Rather, it means not to be caught and dragged around by circumstances.

  Joko Beck

  Mean, Self, Doe

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• It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

  Baroness Orczy

  Gay, Water, Rolling

  Baroness Orczy (2013). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.151, House of Stratus

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• All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

  Hetty Green

  Shrewdness, Dear, Thrift

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• The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have found so persistent in the soul of man, urging him to purity, and service, and perfect love, is the same energy which, outside and above the soul of man, we name God.

  Frank C. Lockwood

  Love Is, Men, Names

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• All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Practice, Creative

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• Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

  John Jakes

  Giving Up, Editors, Taste

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• Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

  Marion Milner

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.154, Taylor & Francis

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• The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

  Rian Johnson

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Advice

  Source: collider.com

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• Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Children, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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