Quotes About Persistence

well, David Bayles, to be exact — who began piano studies with a Master. After a few months' practice, David lamented to his teacher, "But I can hear the music so much better in my head than I can get out of my fingers." To which the Master replied, "What makes you think that ever changes?

THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit. It's a genuine tragedy. Worse yet, it's an unnecessary tragedy. After all, artists who continue and artists who quit share an immense field of common emotional

THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit.

This book is about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do.

The only time you stop run out of chances is when you stop taking them

George Bernard Shaw said that most people who fail complain that they are the victims of circumstances. Those who get on in this world, he said, are those who go out and look for the right circumstances. And if they can't find them they make their own.

Whereas most people automatically anticipate the consequences of their actions, automatically feel shame for unkind deeds, automatically understand why they should persist in the face of frustration, automatically distrust propositions that seem too good to be true, and are automatically aware of their commitments to others, psychopaths may only become aware of such factors with effort.

I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded for long. And I have 1,898 letters from people who don't believe it either.

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

What separates people, Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.

Never, never, never, never, never give in—except to dictates of honor and good sense.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever... until you are dead!

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

You can't instantly reap what you sow today, it does not work like instant grits, no matter what you sow in life it takes time to grow and be ready for harvest

Half is better than nothing and I had no money to invest in this bigger investment to start with I am okay with that

It's one thing to fail your whole life and then become successful because of your failures, it's another thing entirely to repeat the process after you have fallen from the success you once had as the memories of success will attempt to creep into your mind and cripple you, Don't Let it stand back up, dust yourself off and keep walking

Failure is a pre requisite to success

No point looking for something that is not looking for you

Show me a person with great pain and many failures and I'll show you a very successful person." – James D. Wilson

Want to achieve success, Stop searching for it Instead keep walking and when your time comes it will come and find you

Failure is a pre requisite to success you cannot be successful for the long haul if you bypass the failure requirement

A turtle without their shell won't win any Rabbit Race