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• Persistence is the answer, and a sense of humor helps.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Answers, Helping, Sense Of Humor

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• Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Temporary Setbacks, Temporary, Setback

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• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  Zosia Mamet

  Dad, Winning, Bonus

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

  Norah O'Donnell

  Want Something, Important, Trying

  "The Worst Thing You Can Do on a Job Interview (According to CBS This Morning's Norah O'Donnell)" by Maggie Mallon, www.glamour.com. June 21, 2013.

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• It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.

  Bryan Cranston

  Successful, Careers, Luck

  "The Last Stand of Walter White". Interview with Brett Martin, www.gq.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Religious, Spring

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn. When you do something, you might fail. But that's not because you're a failure. It's because you have not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend.

  Jordan Belfort

  Inspirational, Success, Giving Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Passion + Persistence = Possibility

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Passion, Possibility

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• I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Thinking

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.147, Ballantine Books

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• ...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to counteract discrimination's lingering effects. Those effects, reflective of a system of racial caste [legal segregation and discrimination] only recently ended, are evident in our work places, markets, and neighborhoods. Job applicants with identical resumes, qualifications, and interview styles still experience different receptions, depending on their race.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Jobs, Race, Style

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• The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Reality, Government, Practice

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• As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

  Robert Breault

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Determination

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Ideas, Views

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• I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.

  Bradford Cox

  Beach, Teenager, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

  Antonio Porchia

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Doors

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Tasks, Patterns, Impossible

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• What we resist persists.

  Sonia Johnson

  Persist

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.

  Vanessa Amorosi

  Hard Work, Tough, Committed

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Encouraging

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• You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

  Ray Dolby

  Might, Firsts, Corners

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• Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

  Paul Hawken

  Party, Healing, People

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.14, Penguin

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• The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.

  Tacitus

  Hate, Compassion, Race

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• Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Self, Able

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• Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

  David Rockefeller

  Success, Leadership, Creativity

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.396, Random House

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• One quality of entrepreneurship is just persistence, not giving up because you have road blocks and also not giving in because other people tell you that you're nuts. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

  Trip Hawkins

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Block

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