Quotes About Persistence

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

Live news teaches you some incredibly strong lessons: that every day is a new day, and it's never too late to fix something.

My message is that it's never too late. If it's something you want to do or if it's important to you, go for it.

It's never too late to be great.

I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you least expect it.

Our message to parents is to focus on the process the child engages in, such as trying hard or focusing on the task - what specific things they're doing rather than, 'You're so smart. You're so good at this.' Although it's never too late to change, what you do early matters.

It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.

I used to sleep on the floor of the BBC in Cambridge when I was doing the Sunday morning graveyard shift; the last train was too early and the first train was too late and I needed to be there.

I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.

There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

No, it's not easy as it seems sometimes, but hitting year 10 is definitely special because it's not too many people that can do it, let alone do it at a high level.

Sometimes it's easy for things get away from you, a little bit, if you have too many people coming in all the time, trying to put their mark on it. If something is successful, you don't have to do that. All you have to do is keep doing what you're doing, or have been doing.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work, and all kinds of catastrophes happen, but I don't really get too much resistance. But when you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

I believe one is not going to get anywhere by sitting and planning too much. The point is to keep doing, and what will happen will happen.

My whole career has been a landmark. So I don't think about the pressure too much. I just go out and do, because I believe in it.

There is no such thing as too much rehearsal. When Daniel Day-Lewis told Steven Spielberg he needed a year for 'Lincoln,' I understand that.

Film is my big problem. I am involved too much. I love too much. I've been trying to resolve it for 35 years now, but for now, I have to keep making them.

Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.

I was playing the piano when I was three, writing songs when I was ten. I had a lot of experience before I got to college. I knew I wanted to be a singer, so anyone who met me, I didn't let too much time pass before I showed my talent.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.