Quotes About Persistence

If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly.

With Daphne, there was a huge part of me going, This is my dream job, literally my dream role, but there's no way I'm going to get it. So I may as well just do it how I want to do it, and not think about anyone else.' That was quite a good thing.

I just kind of go on with what I'm doing.

Very early on, I met this one comic who said if you're not doing stand-up every night, you're not doing it. And so I just kind of believed that and worked off that.

I've always been able to just kind of run around, do stuff whether I was hurt or not.

I'm just kind of trying to make the best stuff I can make.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

Escape' really helped launch my career as a writer/director, so from there I just kind of took off on my own.

I'm just looking to get through the day.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

Nothing bothers me. You can set my hair on fire, I'm still going to go. I'm just one of those guys.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

I'd love to be able to dominate cycling in general, not just one event.

I'm just one of those guys that, when I'm going in, I'm going all-in. That's kind of the way you've got to be in this business that I'm in.

When we're not shooting 'Ballers,' we're always on the hunt for other work. As actors, we've never satisfied with just one thing.

It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

No one really had to encourage me to become an artist; it was just something I knew I had to do. I was drawn to things that seemed impossible.

We had a lot of close games; we were losing games. Failing in those opportunities - when the game was close? And we needed a bucket or a stop? I wasn't able to come through. It's just... something that you get comfortable with as time goes on. You're OK with failing, as long as you're trying as hard as you can.

I think I'm always writing, and I'm always working, and I'm always trying to be creative. It's just something that I do all the time. I watch TV, and I'll play guitar.

I think it is just something in my head that tells me to keep believing. Andy Spence, my manager at Everton, wrote me a little card before we came away and wrote at the bottom, 'Just remember, it only takes a second to score a goal.'

I am a man of faith and faith is not always supposed to happen and what you see, sometimes it's just walking that path.

I go to my office nearly every day, and I'll sit there for six or seven hours and come up with ideas, and that's the only way I can justify turning up on stage.

You just have to stay the course, you can't get too high or too low on yourself. There is always going to be those highs and those lows, but you have to stay even keel yourself.