Quotes About Persistence

I think honestly doing it this way, getting slowly, slowly better every year, improving little things, I don't think I've missed anything, made any big jumps.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

I write slowly.

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

Sometimes taking it slowly, taking a player through the paces is the best way to keep him wanting more.

I can run a long distance very slowly and I do a half marathon every year.

People wrote me off when I joined the industry, my looks were criticised, my acting was slammed, my films didn't do well. These things changed only slowly, and after a struggle.

In terms of my career, it's been a lot of incremental improvement slowly over time.

Slowly, step-by-step, I will reach my goals and my dreams.

I want to have a long career, so I'm fine with it growing slowly.

I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.

When you're in a slump you want to try something else and you get on a roll.

Everyone in their career is going to go through a slump, but the thing is how you react to it. You're either going to talk about it or you're going to try to shoot your way out of it and I'm going to try to shoot my way out of it.

I have been in slumps before where I've never lost confidence in myself.

You won't get out of a slump if you don't shoot.

I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one.

I can cope with a smack in the face, or at least I should be able to after the number I have had. This one was just run-of-the-mill for me.

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day.

Small, daily elevations compound into massive results over time.