Tenacious Quotes - Page 5

• Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Addiction, Tough

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.21, Random House

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• If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.

  Dane Cook

  Mean, Want, Term

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• Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success

  Elon Musk

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

  Amy Chua

  Practice, America, Excellence

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

  F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

  Hate, People, Genius

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• Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Demand, Firsts, Should

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “A Woman at Thirty”, p.122, The Floating Press

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• Tenacious D loves Auntie Em's. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow?

  Jack Black

  Rainbow, Doe, Ems

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• The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Giving Up, Advice, Filmmaker

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

  Jamie Babbit

  Thinking, Directors

  "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.

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• Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  True Friend, Two Friends, Stronger

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• The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also. And from the study of things underfoot, and from reading and thinking, came a kind of exploration, myself and the land. In time the two became one in my mind. With the gathering force of an essential thing realizing itself out of early ground, I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--- to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching.

  John Haines

  Country, Reading, Thinking

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• You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

  Jessica Alba

  Real, Vision, Passionate

  "Jessica Alba Is Quietly Building an Empire" by Kristin Tice Studeman, www.elle.com. March 24, 2015.

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• The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Who We Are, Renounce

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

  John Ortberg

  Character, Darkness, Doubt

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.209, Harper Collins

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• The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Commitment, Nerves

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• Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Faith, Simple, Men

  Alexander Maclaren (1902). “The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons”

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• Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities.

  Robert Higgs

  Political, Groups, Staff

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