Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benoit Mandelbrot

One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

Brian Tracy

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

Daniel Goleman

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Austin Phelps

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

Earl Nightingale

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

Adolf Hitler

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

Albert Einstein

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Alan Alda

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

David Puttnam

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Byron Katie

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Bryce Courtenay

Never take advice from a donkey.

Cary Grant

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

Simon Woodroffe

There are bound to be viewers wondering how she can dish out advice, ... But I think she is very ballsy and will come back. You learn very little from success, but you learn a great deal from failure. If I had a small business and wanted some advice, I would ask Rachel.

Gregg Laskoski

We strongly advise everyone to make sure they have a well-charged cell phone when they evacuate. But you should make sure that all the regular maintenance, all the stuff you tend to put off, is taken care of. You don't want to be calling for emergency road service during an evacuation because of a tire.

Jamie Dixon

We stressed getting off to a good start and being ready to go, but my advice didn't go very far.

Suzy Buchholtz

We're in a position where we have some advice to give. We're not counselors. We do a lot of advising. Sometimes, it takes an outsider to say, 'No.

Diablo Cody

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Bob Dylan

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

Ashanti

Its so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

Arlo Guthrie

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

Augusten Burroughs

I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

Deepak Chopra

As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.

Aleksandar Hemon

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

Clint Eastwood

There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That's kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that.