Quotes About Persistence

I used to go to the gym with one of my best friends, and we seemed to have the same conversation over and over again. I was always saying, 'I'm still not pregnant, and I still haven't worked out what I'm writing,' and her answer to both was always, 'Just relax!'

Sometimes you just got to settle back and relax and be like, 'All right, Saquon, chill. You know what you're doing. Just do the little stuff.' The little stuff will get you there.

When things are down, we can't hit the panic button, and when things are up, we can't relax. We've just got to stay consistent.

You need balance in your life all-around. When you find that balance and relax and get away from the game a little bit - and when you come back, you just go that much harder.

It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.'

You just have to think that you will get chances, you will score goals - stay relaxed. Stay in the game and show them what you are made of by scoring.

Nah, never relaxing, I'm always working.

If I can relay anything, it's that if someone has a dream, and it isn't the norm of what others are doing around you, it doesn't matter. Reach for it. Go for it - because I'm a shining example of that.

I believe filmmakers must travel with their creations long after release.

I have been trying to get theatre releases for short films ever since I have been making them. I didn't get any response from theatres initially.

It took me nine years to get my first release. I have worked for it. I have earned it. I couldn't have asked for a better debut than 'Masaan.'

I had no release in 2013. I worked on four films; none of them saw the light of day.

I have been constantly working. It's just that it has not been only Hindi films.

Sometimes a song that didn't make one record will stay in my head for so long and just won't go away. I take that as a hint to keep 'em close and not forget about them.

In 1960, when I graduated from college, people told me a woman couldn't go to law school. And when I graduated from law school, people told me, 'Law firms won't hire you.'

The shift for me, after spending a long time trying to take existing projects and bring them to fruition as a director for hire, is going back to where I started as a self-generating director. After trying and failing to get so many things made, I have decided that you've just got to do something you really, really love.

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

I'm hired to do a job. They expect me to do a job, and that job requires me to get my butt up and get back to the huddle, get the play and go do it another time. And until I can't physically get up, I'm going to do that.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

I really admire Ed Sheeran. He seems to have really beaten his way through and I think that's fantastic. He's his own man - good for him. But there aren't many of him out there.

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

I'm very much a get up and go kind of girl. So just the one alarm for me, never hit snooze!

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.