Quotes About Persistence

I wrote 'And Two Boys Booed' several years ago, but we really chased around looking for the perfect illustrator, so it took a while.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

I'm always building images. Even when I go out and put a look together, it's in my head the whole day, like, how I'm going to create this whole story. But I'm never satisfied; it's always a work in progress no matter what. Every day is working.

I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.

I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn't know exactly how it would work, but I had a gut feeling that there must be something, and so I tried to think about it, to be creative.

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.

I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

If I'm really immersed in a story, I try to finish it in a few days. If it's a longer work, then it would take a few months.

I loved to sing and dance and play-act, and I always believed that my dream to become an actor would come true because my immigrant parents had taught me to believe in the American dream.

If you believe in what you do, you are immortal. The day that you don't believe it, the day you're taking other people's opinion, you better go to Tijuana.

I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.

I'm an impatient person, so it's hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take.

I've realized that, as the years have gone on, I have become completely impatient with the demo process.

I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

At the end of the day, be in the game as the game's ending. That's the most important part.

I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

It took me a good two-and-a-half to three years to write 'Dhobi Ghat' and more importantly be satisfied with it.

Most importantly, I don't do music for people to want to be a singer, actor, or dancer. I do it because I love it and I want to show others you can accomplish goals.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I don't believe that many things are impossible to achieve so long as you put your mind to it and take the time to get it done.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.