Quote

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

Robert Harris

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
Forward
Genius
Move
Takes
Unrecognized
Full
Geniuses
Moving
Enables
Men
Rome
World
Perseverance

More quotes by Robert Harris

Image
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
Robert Harris
Image
You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
Robert Harris
Image
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
Robert Harris
Image
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
Robert Harris
Image
People perish. Books are immortal.
Robert Harris
Image
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
Robert Harris
Image
[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.
Robert Harris
Image
To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
Robert Harris
Image
I was a political journalist I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Robert Harris
Image
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.
Robert Harris
Image
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
Robert Harris
Image
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
Robert Harris
Image
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
Robert Harris
Image
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
Robert Harris
Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.
Robert Harris
Image
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
Robert Harris
Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.
Robert Harris
Image
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
Robert Harris
Image
Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
Robert Harris
Image
Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
Robert Harris