The potential ELITE runner must realize that HARD MEANS hard, easy means easy and they must patiently SEEK out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

I had a PERSISTENT mindset that I was GOING to make SOMETHING HAPPEN for myself.

How you HANDLE the obstacles has a big impact on how you do. If you give up, then you obviously don't GET there, but if you're PERSISTENT, and you keep thinking of new ways to approach the BUSINESS, you're more likely to REACH your goal.

Viewers don't LIKE RUDENESS, but they like US to be PERSISTENT.

We have to GET past this persistent NEGATIVITY. The negativity has HELD Rhode Island BACK for a long TIME.

The BRITISH especially have no EXCUSE for forgetting that EMPIRE is a most COMPLEX and persistent BEAST. And it has claws.

In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ONES, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a LINE as SOMETHING more COLORFUL than it was.

We on our PART will STICK to our independent foreign POLICY of peace, acting forever as a STRONG defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of COMMON development.

One THING of the MANY THINGS that I KNOW about Jesse Jackson, he is PERSISTENT.

A director must be patient and unflappable. I THINK I was always pretty relaxed. I don't find SHOOTING as traumatic as some directors do. Some hate it. But you also have to be strong-willed and persistent ENOUGH to GET what you want.

I do BELIEVE in ghosts, or at LEAST in some kind of PERSISTENT spiritual echoes of the past in CERTAIN places.

I DECIDED a LONG TIME ago that I didn't have to be TALENTED. I just had to be PERSISTENT.

I learned how to EAT RIGHT and learned portion control and how to exercise. Staying persistent over the years, I have been ABLE to CHANGE the way I'm perceived on the outside.

The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a LIFE, never mind a RELATIONSHIP. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm QUITE content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep WORKING.

I WANT ATTRACTIVE STOCKS that will BENEFIT from persistent institutional BUYING pressure.