Quotes About Persistence

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

Climbing is a journey without culmination.

This entire journey from 'Balika' to 'Jhalak' to 'Humpty' has been a dream.

Seriously, my heart is to just go forward as far as I can, making music that I love and seeing where the journey takes me.

The best thing about my career is the journey.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

As an athlete, when you have a desire and a want to do something, you fight for it. And it doesn't matter how long your journey is; it's whether you give up or don't.

If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.

I'm not gonna be warded off the joy music bus.

At the end of the day, my career is not going to be judged by one or two or three moments in time. It'll be judged by the longevity of it.

My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.

My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick to your guns - 99% of the time, you'll be glad you did.

Your competitive juice, your love of the game, it's in you. It's hard to get out.

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn.

We want to play a full year, July to July, because that will mean we've been successful.