Persist Quotes - Page 24

• The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

  Lynne Truss

  Writing, Lightning, Doe

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• How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Feelings, Perception

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• magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

  Charles Bukowski

  Magic, Trying, May

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.317, Canongate Books

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• The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Spiritual, People, Secret

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• The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand

  Suzanne Collins

  Rising, Sun

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.9, Scholastic

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• If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.

  David Remnick

  Graduation, Mean, Eye

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• The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
  and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Ideas, Want

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

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• Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Love Is, Known

  Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn, Alexander James William Morrison (1872). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Historical dramas, etc”, p.57

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• The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we ­persist in self-­centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dark, Self, Long

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

  Elia Kazan

  Believe, Fighting, Effort

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• As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Compassion, Our World, Long

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

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