#persist

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ↗

— Colin Powell

#hard #hard work #learning #loyalty #perfection

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off. ↗

— David Steinberg

#i #kind #notes #off #paid

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#back #belief #better #better off #brett

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#moves #notice #persistently #progress #quietly

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#being #our #our people #people #persists

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#discouraging #downward #enrollment #however #institutions

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#easy #elite #hard #learn #means

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. ↗

— Adam Smith

#after #changes #detail #doing #facts

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.) ↗

— Carl Sagan

#truth #persistence

With the persistent loud voice, fool asks us to respect serenity. ↗

— Toba Beta

#loud-voice #persistent #respect #serenity #respect