Quotes About Persistence

Inspiration is a force not to be wrestled with. You can try, but it will slip under the cracks every time.

Getting that first foot on the rung of the ladder, that's where you find it easier to shrug off those times when your foot slips off, and you have to get yourself going again.

You don't want to let your form slip because it can be hard to get back from that.

I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it.

But that's a part of life; you're going through and nothing ever works out how you wanted. Nothing ever completed cleanly the way that you wanted. It is sloppy and messy, and when you think it's over, 'Oh great. We have a bit more to do.' There's always another bit of road ahead, even when you think you've gotten to the end.

In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!

Saving was slow and painful.

'Beatriz' has been a slow burn; people are still finding the movie. It's actually similar to the first few years of 'Friday Night Lights.'

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

You know what's been interesting about my career? It's been this slow rise with long plateaus.

I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.

I have no plans to slow down.

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.