Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

If you're trying to avoid one move that you don't think is going to work out, don't then settle for a different move that maybe doesn't check all the boxes. Be true to the philosophy and understand the bigger picture. There's always another day to fight.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

We cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.

I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.