Steve Winwood

Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? There's no point believing in yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Once you've got a vision of what you want to do, by all means stick to that passionately and doggedly. Believe in your ideas. It's not quite the same thing.

English Musician

Jessica Raine

I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.

British Actress

Don Mattingly

The players get no respect around here. They 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.

American Athlete

Michael Dirda

Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

American Critic

W. E. B. Du Bois

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.

American Writer

Thomas Aquinas

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Italian Theologian

Lee Haney

The key to building massive, powerful muscles is to doggedly increase the training weights you use.

Prue Leith

I'm not clever. But I am level-headed, hard-working, dogged.

South African Chef

Doug Stanton

American Journalist

Joanna Coles

American Editor

Use 'dogged' to emphasize strong and continuous effort, especially in difficult situations.

Intensity Emphasis

While 'stubborn' can be negative, 'dogged' is a positive form of stubbornness, implying admirable persistence.

Positively Stubborn

'Dogged' is often used when someone persists in the face of challenges, not just in regular tasks.

Challenge Context

Use 'dogged' to describe someone's long-term hard work and unwavering commitment to a task or duty.

Long-term Commitment

'Dogged' suggests that the person is worthy of admiration because they do not give up easily.

Admiration Connotation

'Dogged' is best used when someone is fervently focused on achieving a specific goal or objective.

Goal-Oriented

 actually been on on about a 400 yard circuit round here with this whopping great thoughtless determined to take a bit on my leg this is what you called dogged tortoise determination he hasn't seen my finishing sprint yet you can't blame him he's in the bushes over there mating on this beautiful private quiet

Explorer Interrupts...

 trying to find what T.S. Eliot might call that still point of the turning world. It's so rare in American culture, there's so little that's vocational about it anymore, to look at what doggedness looks like with this level of exactitude,

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 the skewer is a dogged opponent continually surveying the colony for the chance of a quick kill