Doggedness Quotes:

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Hard Work, Persistence, Function, Outliers, Doggedness

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

- Daniel Goleman

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

topic: Persistence, Emotional, Enthusiasm, Doggedness

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

topic: Art, Dumb, Heroism, Martyred, Accommodations

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

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

topic: Attitude, Character, Passion, Lucidity, Doggedness

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

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

topic: Running, Art, Thinking, Doggedness, Seconds