Quotes About Persistence

Non si può trovare chi non vuole essere trovato.

Ja verujem da se naporan rad uvek nagradjuje.

Pero ya ves cómo la vida no nos deja en paz; tarde o temprano nos da alcance.

life always asserts itself, but does so more fully if we accept it without resisting.

Dicen que nunca se termina un libro, que simplemente el autor se da por vencido.

Y así, poco a poco, kilo a kilo y beso a beso.

Não se pode encontrar quem não quer ser encontrado.

On one occasion, when I asked Juan Martín what he wanted for his birthday, he whispered in my ear, "For you to leave Dad for good." He'd have to ask me several more times.

no hay finales perfectos. Cada uno lo hace lo mejor que puede, eso es todo.

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

Temple es una virtud apreciada en el varón, pero se considera defecto en nuestro sexo. Las mujeres con temple ponen en peligro el desequilibrio del mundo, que favorece a los hombres, por eso se ensañan en vejarlas y destruirlas. Pero son como las cucarachas: aplastan a una y salen más por los rincones.

Todo es cuestión de seguir avanzando paso a paso hasta el final.

I need to remember to overcome.

If it wasn't for 'Kill Bill' I probably would have been back in New Zealand three months after I left, and if it wasn't for 'Death Proof' I don't think I would be pursuing an acting career right now.

The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing beyond that.

Maybe we'll never reach that perfect zenith you imagine in your dreams, but I sure as hell will die trying.

'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I recorded The 'Blue Notebooks' on a little indie label, and my attitude was, 'Well, if nobody is listening, I might as well keep doing what I'm doing'.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody.

I remember my first World Championships. I got zero turns, and I got turned multiple times, and I was still a World Champion.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

We made 'Pieces' in Cleveland with zero connections to the film business. Absolutely zero.

I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.