Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes, you fall into a ditch without knowing it is there, without seeing it, but you try to come out of it. If you fall again, you will jump out again.

You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.

When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.

You try to figure out the best way to throw the shot put, or the perfect way to long jump, and you don't ever get it. You just chip away, chip away, chip away as time goes on.

Seriously, if 'Superbad' doesn't happen, I don't think 'Jump Street' ever happens.

You don't jump out of an airplane and stop halfway. It's all the way.

It's tough to run fast and jump off roofs when your feet are freezing off!

Mark Jackson played 19, 20 years in the NBA. Shouldn't even have probably been in the league, and he's the third-ranked assist guy in the NBA. But you describe his game: Can he jump? No, not really. How's his outside shot? Eh, it's inconsistent. Can he defend? Nah, he can't stay in front of guys. And he played 19 years!

Whenever I jump into the car I always try to do my best.

At the end of the day, maybe I'm not like the other guys. Maybe I'm not as fast as them. I cannot jump as high as them. But it's been 11 years for me now. You just play different.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

I am just a girl chasing her dreams and having an amazing adventure.

The best thing I ever learned when I first started acting is that you audition, and then you forget about it when you walk out the door. Even when you have a callback, you can't bank on things until you actually book that job, or your heart will just be broken over and over again.

'American Idol' gives people really wonderful opportunities, and they shouldn't take flak for what people do with that opportunity after they leave the show. A lot of casting rooms I was in, that was the only thing on my resume, and people would just be like, 'Oh, here's Katie Stevens. Another 'American Idol' girl who thinks she could be an actor.'

There were guys in 'The State' who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it for a whole season, and after a couple of seasons, you realized that doesn't work. You have to just be willing to throw something away, no matter how good it is, and write a better joke.

After sessions, I keep working and practising with the left foot. Hopefully one day, it'll just be fluent.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished.

If you believe in what you're doing, you should just do it. You'll keep getting better.

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or when you set out to sleep, you sleep. I don't do somersaults to write something. I just do it.

If you really want something, you've gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

I think that people can have their hand in as many different things as they want. You've just got to put your mind to it and just do it.