Quotes About Persistence

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

The life of an actor is you do a job and it's done, then you get another job, someone tells you about one or you have to find it... it can feel a little bit like that scene in '2001' when HAL detaches the astronaut from the spaceship and he's floating off into space on this terrible trajectory into the abyss. At least, it can feel like that.

Back in 2008, nobody wanted to listen to or play my music. They called it trance. There was no market for it, but I just kept going.

Don't set time limits for achieving goals. They should transcend time.

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

One out of four hundred and thirty-five members of the House is not going to transform the culture of the institution, but we've got to start somewhere.

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

People transform in some ways, and they remain exactly the same in others. Often, the thing you'd like to change the most about yourself is where you will forever remain stuck.

I almost gave up on 'Door' so many times. I couldn't crack it. It started out as a simple song with just a chorus-verse-chorus. I felt like it needed to transform more.

The fight against terrorism will not be over tomorrow or next month, or even next year. The fight will endure for years to come, and as the threat changes, so too must we adapt to these transformations.

You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don't work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea. Work is transformative.

There are still many things to work on - the start, the transition, the finish. I am not just going to sit around and wait.

I main-evented a sold-out Budokan Arena show; I participated in the first-ever ladder match in NJPW, made the transition from junior to heavyweight, and earned a G1 win with a series full of performances that I'm personally very proud of.

Really, anyone in the business who transitions into directing as a writer or editor or an actor or a cinematographer, at some point you have to kind of take a leap and say, 'I'm committed to this.'

I enjoy watching the NFL, but you've got to have a real passion to make that transition and have a real crack at it.

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

I did a couple auditions, failed miserably, was about to give up, and booked 'Transparent.'

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

I realized that if I was ever going to achieve anything in life, I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it. I don't believe you can achieve anything by being passive. I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me. Michael Jordan