Quotes About Persistence

Mentally, I need the hard work behind me. That's what gives me confidence.

It's mentally hard. There are times when you're set back again, and you don't know what to do.

The main thing about an endurance challenge is that you have to endure. Not so much physically, but mentally. Your mind gives up first. Not your body.

A lot of people ask me, when I mention I'm from Australia, that I must have been on 'Home And Away,' and I tell them was one of the few who didn't take that route. That's because I auditioned for 'Home And Away,' and I didn't get booked, so you'd call that a knock back.

People are always going to be negative when they mention my name, but I can accept that and that's what makes it easier for me to go on.

A lot of DJs who started the same time as me, they are not to be seen anymore. And I get so much love and respect from the young DJs, and some of them look up to me or ask me for advice. I am almost like the mentor.

I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.

When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.

My career, it's been a mess.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.

Every year, Messi seems to reach his limit, but he always ends up exceeding that. He is the best.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

While we don't always 'get' metal, we're doing our very best.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.

My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

Work hard but with a smile, this is the best method.

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.