Quotes About Persistence

Hard work is the key for success.

Consistency is the key to becoming a good cricketer.

The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.

I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'

I hitchhiked to L.A. with $100 and a keyboard.

The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.

I was never chasing to make a career out of it, but every day after school, I'd go to my keyboard and play for four hours and make up songs. It was a constant part of my life.

I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.

I love writing and I just sit at my keyboard and write.

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

I've lived in a man's world all these wonderful years. I've been the only girl in the cockpit, in the conference room, wherever. I have learned how to kick in a lot of doors, and I have dealt with a lot of disappointments. But I will go into space one day, when God thinks it's right or I make it right.

I feel like whenever I do a movie, people think, 'Well, that's good, but that's probably the best he'll do.' I sort of bang and bang and kick in a door, and people say, 'Now a million doors will open for you.' And they don't.

A lot of people can kick a ball a long way, but sometimes you get in a little funk and you work your way out of it.

I just want to keep going for broke, making bigger and bigger things like 'Lord of the Rings' until they kick me out of Hollywood. I just want to do the biggest thing I can.

You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.

You have to fight hard to get where you want to be. I never had any backing. I just had to kick the door down and barge through.

I played some ping pong with the guys on the T'Wolves team. I might have been the champ on that team, too. But ping pong is a big part of my life. I grew up playing it against my brother and my father when I was young. They used to kick my behind for a long time, so I got very good at it.

I'm not aware if anyone's been told to kick me in training - but they are doing it anyway!

I've kicked a lot of balls over the years.

I'll be kicked out before I rust out.

I was always very small, so growing up, I was always getting kicked around. It was something I kind of grew up with.