Definitions of persistent on the Web:
- never-ceasing; “the relentless beat of the drums”
- haunting: continually recurring to the mind; “haunting memories”; “the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty”- Claudia Cassidy
- retained; not shed; “persistent leaves remain attached past maturity”; “the persistent gills of fishes”
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Does not break down easily in the environment
www.pce.govt.nz/reports/pce_reports_glossary.shtml
Persistently live your truth. It’s okay to live in your own little bubble. It’s okay to be impervious to the influences of external reality — in fact it’s necessary to focus on what you want instead of what is, unless what you want is already your reality.
What you focus on, becomes your reality. Tune into the thoughts that you want; the more you think of what you want, the stronger that frequency becomes in your reality. The deliberate creating of what you want begins with your clear intention to have it.
Be happy in knowing that nothing can come to you but by your invitation of it in thought.
Be discriminating and see only that which you want to see. When something happens that you do not want, see it as being there to help you clarify what you’re wanting. Remember that everything that happens, is in support of your vision. Sometimes we can’t appreciate the whole story when we’re looking at one scary page, forgetting how the story ends. Just make sure you have a vision you want to live.
Focus on where you want to be
Know what you want and that you are willing to do anything to make it happen. Do I have to add disclaimers here clarifying what is okay and not okay to want for yourself? Okay. Preface your wants with, “for the highest good of all” and you’re okay to go. That’s what I do. Works like a breeze. I don’t know how a breeze works exactly, but it feels good on a hot day.
Quotes on persistence:
Alfred Adler:
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them many times over – what do you find? That you can swim? Well – life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.William Blake:
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.Benjamin Disraeli:
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.Dale Carnegie:
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.Frank Lloyd Wright:
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.Jane Addams:
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.John Dewey:
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.John Quincy Adams:
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.Katherine Mansfield:
E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He’s a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain’t going to be no tea.Lao-Tse:
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle — this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.Louis Pasteur:
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.Marian Wright Edelman:
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.Marian Wright Edelman:
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.Marian Wright Edelman:
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?Mary Kay Ash:
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.Ovid:
Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.Robert Frost:
The best way out is always through.Sophia Loren:
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Thomas Alva Edison:
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.Thomas Alva Edison:
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.Thomas Alva Edison:
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.Victor Frankl:
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.W. C. Fields:
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.Winston Churchill:
If you’re going through hell, keep going.