William Nicholson

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

British Writer

E. O. Wilson

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

American Scientist

Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of course, their love and support keeps us going.

Korean Musician

Thomas Merton

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

American Author

Eudora Welty

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

Sebastian Junger

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

Neil Robertson

There's no way in the world any of the guys who have beaten me would have thought I could do what I've done. I just kept persisting with it.

Australian Celebrity

Norman Angell

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Nelson Mandela

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

South African Statesman

William Blake

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

English Poet

Using 'persist' can suggest stubbornness or unyielding efforts when facing challenges.

Stubborn Connotation

'Persist' often has a positive nuance, admiring someone's determination.

Positive Nuance

Emphasizes continuing action even after failing, not just facing difficulties.

Action Despite Failure

Focuses on something that carries on for a long time.

Longevity Emphasized

Something that persists without someone actively maintaining it.

Without Active Effort

Can refer to ongoing issues or situations that do not resolve quickly.

Continuous Occurrence

In computing, 'persist' refers to saving data so it's not lost after the program ends.

Data Preservation

Different from temporarily storing data in memory, which is lost when power is off.

Beyond Memory

Used among programmers and IT professionals, might be unfamiliar to others.

Technical Term

 maintaining a long-term equilibrium and allowing a food chain to persist over time. Feedback processes might seem counterintuitive because many of us are used to more predictable linear scenarios of cause and effect. For instance, it seems simple enough that spraying pesticides would help plants grow by killing pest insects,

Feedback loops: How...

 causing thousands of species to die off in a geological instant. We call this a mass extinction event, and although such events may be rare, paleontologists have been able to identify several of them through dramatic changes in the fossil record, where lineages that persisted through several geological layers

When will the next mass...

 Do such structures serve some hidden function that hasn't yet been discovered? Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants? One idea is that hiccups began many millions of years before the appearance of humans.

Why do we hiccup? - John...

 because they were filled with a special substance, or energy, that was the essence of life. Whether it was called qi, lifeblood, or humors, the belief in such an essence was common throughout the world, and still persists in the stories of creatures

At what moment are you...

 between the 14-year-old and the six-year-old. One wanted to conquer the world -- make a difference -- another was afraid of rejection. And every time that six-year-old won. And this fear even persisted after I started my own company.

What I learned from 100...

 creating the world's largest area of freshwater lakes. Over time, channels developed between these basins, and water began to flow in an ongoing exchange that persists to this day. In fact, today, the interconnected Great Lakes

What’s so great about...

 season directors also play into viewers fantasies about south asia despite the region's diversity and rapid changes certain narratives persist around poverty enlightenment and enchantment india itself is a stereotype character

After Decades of...

 if you think about it this is the only time that we really see the Earth's magnetic field that's one of the reasons why life on Earth has been able to persist for four billion years in a sense that's the reason that you exist

The Northern Lights...

 does it die with it well it consciousness is just information Meishan trace perhaps it persists in the universe in much the same way that the visual spectrum outlast the person who is having a visual perception and if

Asking where consciousnes...

 we don't know why sex evolved nor why it persists. Why don't we just clone ourselves like all life did a billion years ago? It's so much more efficient. We would all have babies, no mates.

Persist

To continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure.

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To continue to exist or occur over a prolonged period.

In computing, to cause (data) to remain in output devices or on auxiliary storage media after having initially been brought out or produced for further processing or use.

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Stubborn Connotation

Positive Nuance

Action Despite Failure

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