Quotes About Persistence

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

I always question myself, but I always say, 'Come on, we can do something good.'

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

If you're always trying to do a good job, then something good is going to come from it.

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

The only way to make something good is if you make it difficult for yourself on every conceivable level. You can't cut corners; you can't rest on your laurels.

I think you can always chase something good and great in this game.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Don't keep rewriting and polishing something if it isn't setting the world on fire: start something new instead and consider the earlier story a learning experience.

Sometimes success means having the right idea in the right place at the right time. Other times, it's about not being afraid to quit and move onto something new.

I think no actor should be ever satisfied because there is always something new to do, something fresh to get challenged by.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

Even when I'm not onstage singing, there's always music going on in my head. It's a curse and a blessing in a way - it's sitting in bed at night, trying to go to sleep, while the music keeps playing in your head - especially when you're trying to learn something new and you're trying to memorize it and get everything.

If I were not able anymore to come to the lab, that's retirement. Or if I had no more ideas of things. Every year, there's something new that comes along that's too exciting to quit.

But the good thing about performing every night is I don't have any excuse not to try something new every day.

I think you hope, throughout the course of your career, if you do things right often enough, you might get a moment in time that you can do something special.

To get my master's, obviously that would be something special.

It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour. But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.