Quotes About Persistence

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

That ugly freak has spent so much time in my head, I should be charging him rent." -Four

The key to success is to love what you do or to do what you love, no matter if you're doing it big time or in a small way.

You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

Each time that I think you go, I turn around and you're creeping in.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run." --Alyss

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.