Doggedness Quotes

• In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

  →

  Albert Camus

  Attitude   Character   Passion  

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

  5126

• 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.

  →

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Giving Up   Hard Work   Persistence  

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

  4176

• 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.

  →

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Art   Dumb   Heroism  

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

  2051

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

  →

  Daniel Goleman

  Persistence   Emotional   Enthusiasm  

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

  4209

• What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

  →

  Robert Hughes

  Running   Art   Thinking  

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2004.

  1999

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

  →

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work   Persistence   Function  

  2270