Quotes About Persistence

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

It's critical to have a disciplined investing approach and stick with it.

You can't attain anything without investing time.

We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.

We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.

Once a fan did something really sweet for me. He came all the way from Nasik and literally lived outside my house from morning to night. When the security guard and my driver told me about this, I invited him to Film City and he was so happy.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Your mind and soul must be completely involved in your work all the time. This is how you will achieve success.

I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry the load and carry it for a while, I felt like I arrived, and it validated my career.

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong.

I believe in always having a lot of irons in the fire.

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

I will continue doing things irrespective of the medium as long as I'm excited about it.

An actor has to act irrespective of the camera or location.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up.

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

I'm used to people being irritated by me. I'm like, girl, whatever. Be irritated. I'm gonna live my dream.

The war against Islamic extremism will be long. They are in it for the long haul, which means that we have to be also.

If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue.

Covid makes the job harder. But it is what it is and we have to get on with it.

I did this the hard way. I have worked my entire life in this business, and I've done the work - from being on the selling floor to learning to speak Italian to work with manufacturers with John Bartlett. I've done it all. I've paid my dues.

We Can't Stop' - everyone said that it wasn't going to work on pop radio, because it didn't have an EDM-type beat. But it went to No. 2 on Billboard and No. 1 on iTunes.