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• The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

  Francis Galton

  Order, World, Generations

  Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development 'The Observed Order of Events'

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• The real excitement is playing the game.

  Donald Trump

  Money, Real, Games

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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• Persistence is nothing more than staying in motion

  Ken Evoy

  Staying

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• Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

  David D. Burns

  Self Esteem, Believe, Thinking

  David D. Burns, M.D. (2013). “Ten Days to Self-Esteem: The Leader's Manual”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Dream, Perseverance

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.141, B&H Publishing Group

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• The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Book

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• I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work, Thinking, Risk

  "Book World Live: Malcolm Gladwell, author of 'Outliers'". Online Discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2008.

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• I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Luck, Wish, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• Great towers take time to construct.

  Herman Melville

  Patience, Towers, Take Time

  Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Extreme patience and persistence are required,
  Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
  The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Patience, Growing Up

  John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

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• If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

  Curly Howard

  Succeed, Firsts, Three Stooges

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• Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Quality, Brutes

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Death, Determination, Lying

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Determination, Time, Jobs

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Thinking, Humanity

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• [John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the other peoples of Europe of the potential greatness of the United States and of the importance of the Revolution to the world.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Determination, Winning, Greatness

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Rocks, Focus

  "The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

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• We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Violence, Honest, Oppression

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 23, 2010

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• The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh - and most importantly - do what you LOVE.

  Mastin Kipp

  Powerful, Rejection, Denial

  "Do What Scares You & See The Miracle That Awaits!" by Mastin Kipp, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.

  Craig Newmark

  People, Listening, Genius

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• Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Men, Path

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.35, A&C Black

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• There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

  J.A. Konrath

  Success, Giving Up, Stress

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• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  Octavia Butler

  Giving Up, Writing, Long

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.148, Seven Stories Press

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• I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise.

  James Cameron

  Spiritual, Data, Afterlife

  "The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron". Book by Rebecca Keegan, 2009.

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