Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the…

“Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He was a dog, without a shadow of a doubt. But in human form. The quality of doggishness is an inner quality and can…

— Bruno Schulz

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

— Tim Fargo

What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of…

— Robert Hughes

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— J.M. Coetzee

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

— Daniel Goleman

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up…

— Albert Camus

“Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.”

— Benjamin Wood

“So this is love: the Sculptor’s chisel. And stone, which in its whole life does not utter a single word, suddenly sings.”

— Milan Rúfus

“Together. The fact that one single word could send my heart aflutter was utterly ridiculous. I didn’t fall for boys I hardly knew. At…

— Nicole Sobon

I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics -…

— Beth Grant