Quotes About Persistence

I wholeheartedly encourage any steps in the right direction, in whatever time frame works for the person on the path.

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

You might get a "no" a hundred times but you might get "yes" one time. That one "yes" will take you on a new path!

We're still on the run. That's for sure. Right on. This time we're on. And we won't stop till we win.

Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

I've sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can't figure things out all the time but keeps at it.

You're not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You're going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time.

When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't change it for the world - I love what I learn every single day.

Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.