Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own.
There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
It's dogged as does it.
The players get no respect around here. They (the Yankees) give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.
All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.
This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.
There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced. . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously. . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.
He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.
