Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes if you kick too much, it can work in a negative direction. If you get tired or sore, you might develop some bad habits.

You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

I applied to NASA four times. And finally, they said, Wally, you know, we're sorry, but you don't have an engineering degree. I said, well, I'll get one.

Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

I never gave up, but a lot of the homies did, and I don't feel sorry for them.

If there were some people who considered me a joke, I'm sorry about that. But I did not do it for any other reason except that I loved to ski jump, and I had hopes that by my doing it, other people in my country would take up the sport.

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and everything kind of evolved for me.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

Not chasing success, I want to focus on my process. If I do that, eventually everything gets sorted out.

I was always sorted; I wanted to become an actor.

I've always made my opportunities, I've never been one to wait for them and sit around waiting for something to happen. I've always sought them out.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Me, my heart and my soul will always be a fighter. I'm not comfortable with saying, 'I'm done. I quit. I give up.' That's the way I am, and that's the way I always will be. From the day I was born to the day I die, I am a fighter!

A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's consummate, unmitigated tedium.

As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.

'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.

I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.

I probably sound like a broken record every time I do a race, but I always look for the bad. That's just kind of how I work.

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.