Quotes About Persistence

You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.

I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent.

I think that the nature of being a human being and someone who works in the creative arts is that you hear the word 'no' a hundred times before you hear the word 'yes.'

Falling down doesn't matter, even if you do it a hundred times. All that matters is that you get up again.

A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.

I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.

I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.

I hung around New York and did a little stock-company stuff. I wasn't really sure at that time if I even wanted to be an actor. I got no encouragement.

There were some that said if you hung in long enough, the world would catch on, and they have.

I mean, I really hung in there for as long as I could. I was working 18 hours a day on songs and singing.

I am an individual who has that hunger for success and I want to keep it that way.

I'm going to keep loving football. That's one thing I'm most proud of: my hunger and desire for the game has not stopped.

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

We need to always stay hungry. When we lose the ball, get it back quickly.

I always believed in getting better and better in each and every format and give my best. As a batsman, it is important to keep learning every time and stay hungry for your runs. I don't get satisfied.

And I have known meditators filled with doubt and self-condemnation when the practice has been stormy. Practicing with our best effort during periods of crisis and personal struggle may not bring about spiritual highs. It may, however, bring something more important: a strengthening of the inner qualities that sustain a spiritual life for the long term: mindfulness, persistence, courage, compassion, humility, renunciation, discipline, concentration, faith*, acceptance, and kindness.

I've had the blues for twenty-four years.

I knew you could do it, I knew you could, Libby, she mumbled into my hair, warm and smoky. Do what? Try just a little harder.

Nothing to it but to do it.

Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.

Everywhere I go is the river. I'm following it or it's following me.

You always take the extra step that others don't, that's who you are.

Never leave a message for someone you really want to reach. No, you keep phoning and phoning until someone picks up—out of anger or curiosity or fear—and then you blurt out whatever words will keep them on the line. I

But one day I will wear him down, I will catch him off guard, and he will lose the energy for the nightly battle, and he will get in bed with me. In the middle of the night, I'll turn to face him and press myself against him. I'll hold myself to him like a climbing, coiling vine until I have invaded every part of him and made him mine.