Doggedness Quotes

“There is doggedness to genius. It is the ability to dig deep and hold on to the dream.”

“What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?”

“It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.”

“The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”

“I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.”

“Like yeast, it’s impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one’s efforts grow and expand.”

“I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.”

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”