Quotes About Persistence

No me hace falta ser tan buena. Solo necesito disfrutar por mí misma. Y necesito saber que lo he intentado.

So she settled for crossing her arms and skewering him with a glare. To no effect whatsoever. He just stared down at her and said, "No." Hyacinth opened her mouth one last time, then gave up, sighed, and said, "Well, I suppose if I could walk

Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart's desire has been right under your nose all the while.

It was time to stop waiting, time to forget about fate and destiny It was time to act. To work. Hard. No one was going to hand him that second-to-last piece of the puzzle; he had to find it for himself.

It was amazing how slowly one could work when one really put one's mind to it.

I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.

'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.

Learn your craft. You want to be a doctor or a teacher - it's very important to learn your craft and indulge in it. You have to get involved and learn as much as possible and go for it.

The industry can choose to ignore my work if they want, but my fans won't.

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.

I've always had a rugby ball in my hand, so it was inevitable I was going to play.

It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.

Play as much as you can. That's what I had to do because of my inexperience. And don't get frustrated.

My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.

With Justin.TV, infinite people told us that it wouldn't work, and to some extent they were right. But it was still a good investment.

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making movies, to the Film Society, to just being in a film world. It's a life that I wanted to inhabit. I think everyone has the opportunity to do that in this world - it's just, are you gonna work for it, and how much does it mean to you?

Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

I came up with the Enveloper when I was 20 and it took my dad and me several months to develop the initial concept into a working model.