Persist Quotes - Page 17

• There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

  Vinton Cerf

  Floating, Cobol, Maxims

  "The great IP crunch of 2010" by Mark Frauenfelder, www.cnn.com. September 21, 1999.

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• There's a notion of art in this country that you have to be nutty or special or "called" in order to be an artist. I believe the questions everyone should ask themselves are, "Do you want to do it? Are you willing to do it poorly? Are you willing to do the work of doing it? Are you willing to persist when everybody tells you it's silly?" If you're willing to do that, then you can do it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Country, Art, Believe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Errors

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• Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In the 17th century, Descartes applied this insight to cosmology, and long before Darwin presented his more rigorous ideas about variation and selection, people began to speculate more openly about the origins of life and the species in Epicurean terms.

  Catherine Wilson

  Origin Of Life, Order, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Long, People, World

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I believe in the not-too-distant future, people are going to learn to trust their information to the Net more than they now do, and be able to essentially manage very large amounts and perhaps their whole lifetime of information in the Net with the notion that they can access it securely and privately for as long as they want, and that it will persist over all the evolution and technical changes.

  Robert E. Kahn

  Believe, Long, People

  "Computing Pioneers Discuss the State of the Net". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 22, 2005.

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• So long as there is breath in me, I will persist.

  Og Mandino

  Long, Breaths

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• Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Beauty, Vanity, Gone

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• The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?

  Al Gore

  Eye, Thinking, Years

  "Gore talks climate change, jobs in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell". www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• At the end of the day, you have to be yourself, you have to say and stand for what you believe in, you have to be willing to get up and go ahead and take the slings and arrows and just try to persist through them, because it's apparently an inevitable part of our American democracy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Being Yourself, Believe, Arrows

  "Hillary Responds To Critics Allegations". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, wuot.org. January 13, 1996.

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• Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

  Bob Frank

  Demand, Financial, Great Depression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene?

  Edan Lepucki

  Writing, Thinking, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Another thing I like to say to my students is this: "How many Corinthians read Paul's letters?" The answer is none. They couldn't have cared less! There aren't even any Corinthians left, but Paul's letters persist. Paul was not a professional writer. He was called to something, and he sent his letters. That's a good way to look at it. That you might be making something that nobody cares about, but you have to do it. It's not that people should care, but that you should care.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Might, Way

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Gay, Challenges, Language

  "Die, Bundle of Twigs!" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. January 5, 2016.

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• Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

  Bob Geldof

  People, Progress, Trying

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• If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

  Taylor Caldwell

  Memories, Individual, Previous Life

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• The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

  William Blake

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

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• I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are species and whole lineages that go extinct - but basically novels and plays, and so on, will continue to exist. Jokes, as the lowest-cost form of narrative, will certainly continue to exist. They're a bit like microbes in the biological world. They're low-cost and they're everywhere. They're the most successful form of life, even though they're not the ones we think about most.

  Brian Boyd

  Successful, Thinking, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Shared Sino-American global security goals would not mean that one partner dictates to the other. U.S.-PRC differences will persist, and on the Asian regional level they can even be a source of mutual irritation. Nor should it mean that we ignore the basic differences between our political systems and values.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, Goal, Political

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Many people persist in the wrong job, trying year after year to get good at what they're bad at or at what they dislike. Like marrying the wrong person, working in the wrong job is a prescription for a life of toil-and-groan.

  Edward Hallowell

  People, Trying, Dislike

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Love You, Stubborn, Trust Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer the case. The United States is once more an oil exporter. Available and accessible reserves of oil and natural gas in North America are far greater than was once believed. Yet the assumption that the Persian Gulf still qualifies as crucial to American national security persists in Washington. Why?

  Andrew Bacevich

  Today, Assumption, Prosperity

  "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

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• Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally, through the heavens, the soul's afterlives or reincarnation, or by the prospect that some vestige of ourselves will persist over time - from having kids, amassing great fortunes or producing great works of art or science. Yet no culturally constructed symbolic belief system is ever powerful enough to completely eradicate the anxiety that is engendered by the awareness of death.

  Sheldon Solomon

  Art, Powerful, Kids

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that to the most effective charities you can find, then that may be the best thing that you can do. And - also, if you do become a Wall Street banker, I think you need to be aware of what you're doing in terms of your daily work, not just earning money to give a lot away. But you need to think about - am I harming people through the work that I'm doing?

  Peter Singer

  Wall, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The people who live the life of their dreams take risks. And on top of that, they persist. And on top of that, they trust themselves. And on top of that, they don't let circumstances hold them back, because they know that they are more powerful than their circumstances.

  Mastin Kipp

  Dream, Powerful, Live Life

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