Quotes About Persistence

I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

I've been working on the new Miracle Mop for many years.

I was sending off my plays almost like an 8-year-old would send letters to Santa Claus. So it was a bit of a miracle when the Blank Theatre Company actually called and selected a terrible little play that I wrote.

We made 'Arjun Reddy' with Rs 5-6 crores. And it seems it will make a lot more money than we had thought it would. So you see, miracles do happen! I believe in them.

I don't believe in miracles.

Faith and hard work have been my mirror.

I'm never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Yes, I'll go out and meet people.' Most of the time, you wake up, look in the mirror, and want to give up. And that doesn't change. It isn't awful; it's just the way I feel.

I always write 'Fight' on the mirrors - that goes way back to the times when you had to fight apathy.

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by setting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually make my way out of the desert.

I miss many chances, but I always keep trying, and sometimes you score easy goals or difficult goals, but in the end, I am trying to score.

A striker can miss three or four chances and still score the fifth.

I try to miss as little school as possible.

Make or miss, you still have to shoot the same shot with confidence.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

I've missed before in college and high school. If you miss, you figure out what went wrong and kick the next one.

Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.

Haven't a lot of us just missed at a lot of things and thought that we wouldn't have another chance at it? So we give up early.

I've hit a lot of big shots and missed a lot of big shots, and I'll continue to shoot them.

I always want to push on, I always want to keep going because I feel like I've missed out on things in the past, so I'm going to keep going until I can't go anymore.

When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.