Quotes About Persistence

Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.

For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.

I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.

Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us.

So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

95% of being a success is just showing up on time and being there. I don't know how I knew that when I was younger. You have to stick around for people to remember you.