Quotes About Doggedness

#1. Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

Calvin Trillin

#2. Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

Robert Breault

#3. Roland shook his head slowly. There was a lesson here, he realized, not a shining thing but something that was old and rusty and misshapen. It was why their fathers had let them come. And with his usual stubborn and inarticulate doggedness, Roland laid mental hands on whatever it was.

Stephen King

#4. The hardest thing about doing a series and having it stick is that you've never performed with each other, and the pilot is kind of a dress rehearsal, and you don't know the tone until two or three episodes in.

David Giuntoli

#5. It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

Derek Thompson

#6. Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

Michael Dirda

#7. That is strange and creepy," Marcy remarked, "but totally cool. You Ghostbustered her.

Amanda Carlson

#8. The rocks will melt with the sun before tuition fees are introduced in Scotland.

Alex Salmond

#9. Patience, my friend;
Once again, I say, Patience.
In an era 'plagued' with speed, doggedness of character and drudgery of persistence is the only guarantee to mastery.

Ufuoma Apoki

#10. The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

Warren Ellis

#11. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

Tim Fargo

#13. If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace.

Nirmala Srivastava

#14. Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

Thomas King

#16. To strip failure of its real emotional consequences is to scrub the concepts of grit and resilience of the very qualities that make them both so important - toughness, doggedness, and perseverance.

Brene Brown

#17. The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#18. It may just be that you are developing a quiet doggedness. This is priceless. Perfectionism, on the other hand, will only drive you mad.

Anne Lamott

#19. I'll keep looking- till that watery reflection of mine in your eye, rolls down as a tear. I'll keep looking till we finally look away like our lives never met. Let's cheat destiny as if we never knew each other. Let's do this last thing together.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

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

Daniel Goleman

#21. Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.

Benjamin Wood

#22. The ears and the heart are connected, it's true,
for when ears open wide, the heart opens up too.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#23. Better to build orphanages than prisons.

James Cook

#24. I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

Terry Teachout

#25. Michael Jordan on his worst day is ten times better than Kobe Bryant on his best day

Reggie Miller

#26. She got in, as she had persuaded Jerott Blyth to bring her half across France, by force of logic, a kind of flat-chested innocence and the doggedness of a flower-pecker attacking a strangling fig.

Dorothy Dunnett

#27. Like yeast, it's impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one's efforts grow and expand.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

J.M. Coetzee