Daniel H. Pink Quotes

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

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.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

Persistence pays off.

You have to keep trying to get better.

There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.

I'm a guy that's all about not trying to take the easy way out or get out of things too early.