#tenacious

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#class #discussion #especially #free #free discussion

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#acceptance #challenge #character #child #choice

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#much #possible #stage #tenacious #time

I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.' ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#big #bronx #first #hand #i

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#i #pretty #problems #tenacious

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#accessible #after #anyone #black #black hole

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie. ↗

— Jack Black

#days #doing #early #i #just

I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented. ↗

— David Brock

#hard worker #i #incredibly #tenacious #worker

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#favor #i #i am #only #perhaps