Quotes About Persistence

When I started my career, I gave four flops, and then four hits, two flops, two hits, and then three flops.

Whenever you're not getting hits, it turns to being about the result, and you've got to make sure it's always about the process.

If I don't get hits, I don't get hits, but I'm trying to get hits.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

Trying to find big hits has always been a needle-in-a-haystack endeavor.

Hits and flops happen in everyone's careers. Be it an actor or a filmmaker, you can't let that affect your conviction.

I'm not shooting for it, but I'll take eight straight hits any day of the week.

As hitters, if something's working, you don't change it.

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

When you get one blocked and another partially blocked, you've got to see if you're hitting them low or what.

When you find yourself hitting up against a wall over and over again, it's time to try a different route.

Hitting is hard, and even when you work to improve, you can still struggle.

I don't want to be hitting one day then not hitting my shots the next day.

When you're in good form and hitting the ball well you want to keep playing as much as you can and not have too much of a break.

Acting was just a hobby; I never needed butter from it.

I love writing and making films. What started as a hobby ultimately turned into my profession.

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

This is every creative person's dream - a hobby that I'm lucky enough to get paid for.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

For me, acting is not a hobby. It is a career that I have chosen and was not willing to let go of so easily after seven years of hard work.

I've been acting since I was a kid and it started out as a hobby. I've been lucky enough to make that my professional career and I've earned a living out of it.

In hockey, there are no second chances, but the great thing about acting is that there actually are. If you do a scene and you think you can do better - take two!

I've always just tried to stick with what works, and sometimes you go through funks - not only in just hockey but in general.