Quotes About Persistence

For every single show you do, make sure you go out and literally try to beat what you did the day before. It's something that you can incorporate into everything you do. If you're constantly trying to beat your best, over time it will help you grow.

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.

Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.

I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No one really dug it. It was very Americana and had a lot of folk elements in it.

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

For five years I worked independently waiting for the right opportunity to present itself.

People go through things in life where they put a certain amount of work or time in and you feel indestructible.

Ça dure toute la vie, une évasion. C'est tout le temps à refaire.

Good planning that sweeps away ignorance will indeed reveal difficulties ahead, but that is no reason to quit and walk away.

We do not have to be desperate to be creative. Indeed, there's reason to think that desperation may actually hinder the imaginative moments that elevate a project to glory.

Correva, sempre più veloce, più sciolto, col cuore che bussava ma dall'esterno verso l'interno come se smaniasse di riconquistare la sua sede. Correva come non aveva mai corso, come nessuno aveva mai corso, e le creste delle colline dirimpetto, annerite e sbavate dal diluvio, balenavano come vivo acciaio ai suoi occhi sgranati e semiciechi. Correva, e gli spari e gli urli scemavano, annegavano in un immenso, invalicabile stagno tra lui e i nemici.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

Success, in the words of Winston Churchill, "consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." The greatest barriers to success so far have been the fear of failure and the failure to learn from mistakes.

Defying Fate's and Fortune's will; What first was fair, is glorious still.

Patience wins the race.

There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.