Quotes About Persistence

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

I've been building slow, step by step.

I started slow, and eventually I started working out 4 to 5 days a week. We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all.

Don't stop. Don't slow down. Keep focused.

In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard.

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.

I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

It might be a slow process reaching to the top but I am patient. I don't want to get into something that I am not completely convinced about.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

I've learned that everything is a slow process in the TV and movie industry.

I kind of feel like... I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Eventually, it slowly built up, a small job to a slightly bigger job to a slightly bigger job to the third season of NBC's 'This is Us.'

I did so many open mics. I would write jokes on Twitter constantly, and then slowly, over time, open mics turned into shows. If you can get a joke to work at an open mic, it's a good joke.

The voice changes very slowly. I keep mine well under control and try with all my might to keep it exactly as it was at the very beginning.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

I write very slowly.