Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads how to follow how to connect find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element but talent in relationship to will desire and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent be it epic or drama or narrative is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me but patience and persistence have paid off.

Gardeners are good at nurturing and they have a great quality of patience they're tender. They have to be persistent.

As for goals I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

Patience persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Knowing trees I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can appreciate persistence.

In the last analysis the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

To succeed one must be creative and persistent.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath seeking the divine. It persists.

The smallest flower is a thought a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole of whom they have a persistent intuition.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent persuasive and unrealistic.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

One of the functions of an organization of any organism is to anticipate the future so that those relationships can persist over time.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

The distinction between the past present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Conjugal love or the friendship of spouses can persist even after sexual desires have weakened withered and disappeared.