Quotes About Persistence

If you are determined in your life, it is only the mindset that counts which is more important than questions like if I can do or cannot do.

Whatever you're trying to do, wherever you're trying to go in life, whatever you got your mindset on, stay there.

My mindset: Run through people, but have a good time doing it.

If I'd not been a coal miner in the past, getting up very early, I wouldn't have been able to have done what I've been doing.

I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is only the beginning.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

When you break glass ceilings, you're going to get minor scrapes by a shard or two from the glass.

We knew people in Cleveland who had been making movies for 20 years that nobody sees. Every couple of years, they make a little small movie on their own, and it goes to some minor festivals, and that's it. Four years later, they do it again. That's a fulfilling life for some filmmakers, and they're happy to work that way.

Even in the minor leagues, I just said I'll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn't going to just give up. I was always going to try. I'm here. I figured I might as well try.

I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

I can't do anything in a minute.

I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.

I got to fight every second, every minute and every round.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.

It is exactly in the muddy water that the lotus grows and blooms.

One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.

Again and again we try to escape ourselves, but we fail in our efforts, constantly run our heads into the wall because we don't want to recognize that we can't escape ourselves, except in death.

We can exist at the highest degree of intensity for as long as we live.

Glenn had the good fortune of collapsing at his Steinway in the middle of the Goldberg Variations. [Wertheimer] claimed he'd been trying to collapse for years, without success.

All our lives we run away from amateurishness and it always catches up with us, I thought, we want nothing with greater passion than to escape our lifelong amateurishness and it always catches up with us.

My constant curiosity got in the way of my suicide.