"In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years."

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Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

#Patience Quotes #Perseverance Quotes #Work Quotes

“It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
“I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.”
“Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving the body 'uncontrolled' is spoken of, what is meant is simply allowing the body to remain in an authentic, uncorrected condition, in which it is not necessary to modify or improve anything. This is because, since all our attempts at correcting the body come from the reasoning mind, they are all false and artificial.”
“Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.”
“Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.”
“I feel like a juggler running out of hands.”
“Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.”
“No one ever sounded like The Slits or looked like them, no matter how many people tried it, or were influenced by it. It's impossible. You can't recreate that. There will never be another Sex Pistols. There will never be another Clash.”

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