Quotes About Persistence

You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.

I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.

There are real tricks to getting a job that I just don't like or understand - it feels too close to pandering. I've tried it, but it doesn't work.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

We don't know how many planets we're going to have to examine before we find life, and not finding it on 10 or 100 doesn't mean it's not there. This may be very tricky.

Later in life, when my kids struggle to understand a tricky concept or master a new skill, I want them to have the strength and experience to tell themselves, 'I don't know how to do this... yet!' I want them to be confident that, even if something seems challenging today, they have what it takes to figure it out.

Social media is a bit tricky but the key is in patience. I know it's easier said than done, but I have been patient for six years and never gave up.

You try something, it doesn't work, and maybe people even criticize you. In a fixed mindset, you say, 'I tried this, it's over.' In a growth mindset, you look for what you've learned.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work - some kind of honest labor.

I took the California Highway Patrol exam and didn't pass, so I tried to be a cop and failed.

All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world.

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to film school, and tried to be like my heroes, like, Spike Lee and Hal Hartly.

Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again.

I tried to be a rapper. I tried to make beats before I got into comedy, and that's still one of my hobbies.

I tried to interest my daughter in dancing, but she didn't take to it. As a five-year-old, she got lost on the way to her first class. After that she didn't go to dance class again.