Repeated Attempts Quotes

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

It's all about patience and persistence - you often have to expose a child to a new food numerous times before he or she will begin to like it. So keep trying!

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.