Quotes About Persistence

I have the drive to spend five hours a day to teach myself a skill.

The fact that I will be a relentless rebounder and I will go for every rebound. That's a skill.

Take your time to really learn and study the fundamentals of your pursuit, so that one day, your fully developed skill set will allow you to grow into a leader.

Spending eight to ten hours every single day practicing the instrument, starting from an early age, makes an instrumentalist spend his/her lifetime to hone the skill, and perhaps just as much time is spent to find a job too.

I've gotten very used to falling off of things. It's almost like that's my skill! I'm great at falling down and getting back up.

Nothing happens overnight for anyone. To become a skilled, accomplished artiste, you need time to work on yourself first.

Good knife skills are lessons you learn over time.

I realized that I could actually miss practice and rest, then come back to the gym and still have my skills.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

Every budding actor should constantly focus on acquiring his/her skills rather than getting disappointed.

My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

Work on your writing skills. Realize that Hollywood is an industry built to keep you out, and once you're in, it's designed to cycle you out - so you have to get up every day and work all day long to give Hollywood a reason to let you in, and then to keep you in.

I think I just need more time to refine my skills, and I can be a dominant pass rusher.

I've been looking for my absolute favorite beauty product for a long time because my skin becomes dry and oily relatively fast. I haven't found the right one, but I'm not giving up!

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.

Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.