A Quote by Sydney J. Harris
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
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If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.
In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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It's way more fun to tell jokes for an hour than it is to sit in a room and bash your head against the wall trying to think of sketches.
What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.
You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .
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They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two were the hardest. I almost went mad, beating my head against the wall.
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Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.
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