Persistent Quotes - Page 3

• Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

  Tom Peters

  Odds, Misreading

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• America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.

  Barack Obama

  America, Bluster, Resolve

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Moving, Positive Thinking, Persistence

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.143, Penguin

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• You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Sex, Children

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• Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Taken, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Personality, Variation

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• With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Business, Self, Emulation

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 5 (1899)

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• Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Love, Religious, Passion

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

  Marilyn Manson

  Media, Alarms, Way

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• A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Tranquility, Moments, Fluttering

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• Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Life, Opportunity, Seizing

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.2, University of Iowa Press

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• Sorry,” she said breathlessly. “I got lost in the crowd.” “I noticed,” he said. “One second I was dancing with you, and the next you were gone and a very persistent werewolf was trying to get the buttons on my jeans undone.” Sebastian chuckled. “Girl or boy werewolf?” “Not sure. Either way, they could have used a shave.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Sorry, Boys

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

  Bob Maguire

  Community, Should, Appetite

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• Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

  Richard G. Scott

  Adventure, Character, Adversity

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• The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. There is no doubt that from the time humanity began to think it has occupied itself with the problem of its origin and its future which undoubtedly is the problem of life. The inability of science to solve it is absolute. This would be truly frightening were it not for faith.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Faith, Science, Men

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• If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks the god Jehovah will bail him out serve in public office is like letting a man who believes in Santa Claus run a Toys 'R Us.
  The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Religious, Lying

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• Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fiction, Stories, World

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• Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pain, Yoga, Keys

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• Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be persistent. That's very important. There's nothing instant about it. It's a way of life, actually, where you choose to spend your life doing this activity called making art.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Art, Interesting, Important

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

  John Wyndham

  Optimistic, Race, Comforting

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• I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

  Christopher Walken

  Order, Done, Succeed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Strong, Lying, Successful

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Keep moving forward, don't listen to the naysayers, persevere, be persistent.

  Rudy Ruettiger

  Moving, Naysayers, Persevere

  Source: abnormaluse.com

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• The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Enemy, Truth Is

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Loner, Force Of Will

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