Quotes About Persistence

'Library of Souls' is longer than 'Hollow City' by a considerable margin, but this time I was on the right track from the beginning, so I never had to start over. It took about 15 months, all told.

You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.

People who know my track record know when I've got a vision in mind, I'll see it through. But sometimes it's hard to convey what you're trying to achieve.

These short tracks are about patience. You have to show patience.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.

I spent 20 years working for the trade union movement before becoming a Labour MP. I'm proud to have done both jobs.

Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

I really started from the bottom. When I got drafted, I was not playing. I had to work my way up. Then I got traded, came off the bench, then became a starter.

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.

History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

We can be together, Rose. Soon. We're almost there. And nothing will ever keep us apart.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.