John Cage Quotes

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

Never give in or give up easily on a cause.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

Walls don't fall without effort.

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

I won't give up till we surrender!

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.

Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.

When you give your all to something and you're hitting a wall, it just feels so wrong.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

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

But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Fight to the bitter end.