Quotes About Persistence

Now I've won everything in the game I'm just trying to repeat the success.

I am looking at consistency in my choices now and creating repeat value as far as my work is concerned.

If you work hard enough I don't think it's possible to just repeat what you're doing.

My overly ambitious dream is to be a Lena Dunham - I get immense pleasure seeing her name repeated over and over in the end credits of her brilliant creation 'Girls.'

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama, each were told repeatedly, 'You can't win.' They all won.

Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

I love the idea of someone getting knocked down repeatedly, but they still believe in love.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

Repeating is harder than anything else.

Winning is hard. Repeating is harder.

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

Repetition every day. That's something the great ones do is never get complacent.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

Repetitions - I think that's one of the best ways during the season to maintain something or get better at it, is just to do it over and over.

Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

I have had teachers who were brutal. If you look up 'brutal' in a dictionary, you will see their names. And I think that it's under the guise of wanting to change the actor's habit - wanting to break bad habits and replace them with brand-new ones you can use for the rest of your career.

I cannot become who I want to be by remaining who I am. So, I decided to kick off my high heels and replace them with the shoes of a director.

I thought to myself, 'What can I do that Amazon can't replicate?' I wanted to do something Amazon couldn't do, and something that I absolutely loved.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.