Quotes About Persistence

I grind. I hustle. I don't have time to get no haircut.

Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work.

Every day's a hustle.

For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.

Whatever your hustle is, go somewhere with it.

I still have to hustle to get jobs, audition and put myself out there.

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.

I'm always hustling.

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.

Whenever you step on the ice, you need to be a student of the game and try to hone your craft. You're never going to play a perfect match, but you're always chasing that perfect game.

I want each experience on the ice to be everything I have.

Even when I wasn't on the ice, I was always on my rollerblades.

I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005.

The ideal course of life is not always easy.

Nothing is ever ideal. You have to work all the same.

I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

Ideally, you want to play games, and you don't want to train every day without the matches.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

Too many times we just think about our ideas, and we let people convince us not to do it.

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

I thought, 'Nobody wants this book, and I'm an idiot for having worked on it so hard.' But to succeed in writing, you must be willing to look stupid for a long time. 'Pachinko' took so long because I got it wrong so many times.

In this business, you have to have what they call an idiotic determination to succeed.

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.