Quotes About Persistence

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.

If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going to happen when it's supposed to happen. I'm not rushing it. I'm not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'

I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

If I go racing tomorrow and I have five rides that all get beaten, all I want to do is get out there the next day and put it right. I hate having Sundays off; I hate having any day off.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

Don't worry about the title. Worry about what you've got to do today, tomorrow, the next day, and that title will be waiting for you.

This is a fickle industry. Here today, gone tomorrow. I don't want to spend all the time reflecting. I want to spend it doing.

If I got dropped tomorrow or every single I released from now on tanked, I'd be devastated, but I'd also still be doing this. I'd still be writing songs. I'd still be recording them. I was doing that for four years in Nashville. This is just on a larger stage.

Talk about dues, we paid a damn ton of 'em. So many that if things ever went too smoothly, it would ruin the group.

If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.

Even though I only get a few days off, I do not stop, whether it's getting some stage time at an open mic or flying to L.A. to watch a ton of stand-up shows.

I didn't have a ton of success as Justin Hawk Bradshaw, but it wasn't a failure, either.

Everything I did in 2020 set the tone for 2021.

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.