Quotes About Persistence

The reason I can play loads of instruments is because I kept giving up and trying another one.

From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

I'm an extreme do'er - I'm not an intellect; I'm not a bookworm. I do, do, do, and nine times out of ten, I fail, but I learn from that.

I don't intend to retire.

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I intend to act forever if I can.

I never intended to dance in my own work, but we did what had to be done.

If something doesn't feel right comedically I won't budge on it. You just have to dig your heels in and fight for it. And I mean fight quite intensely.

It is difficult to take in how long you have been doing one thing when you compete at the highest level and always with the highest intensity.

If I didn't get paid to play this game, I'd still play it the exact same way, with as much intensity and as much focus as I play it with now.

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

Our intent is to attack for 90 minutes.

My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central and have my half hour special.

I do my work with only one intention: that I have to think different, nothing else matters to me. I don't get involved in any other things.

I put out my first song with no intentions of being famous.

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

I'm not going to give up enjoying my life and doing the things that I'm interested in doing.

I've been lucky enough to do a lot of very interesting things, and every time, I've been like, 'I want to put everything into this because I want to see how far I can go with it.'

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Well, for me, it's never just been fashion designing. It's the creative challenge that keeps me going be it for my label, styling projects or interior designing.