Quotes About Persistence

The only way to win this cat-and-mouse game, as the Cat said in Red Dwarf, was not to be the mouse.

He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.

Dream big and they just might come true, keep trying and never give up!

practice doesn't make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect.

Sometimes your best isn't good enough

You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

dripping water wears away stone

L'amore non conosce ostacoli; né porta né serratura A passare sempre riuscirá. L'amore non ha principio, batte le ali per sua natura e per sempre le batterà. Matthias Claudius (1740-1815)

If you eliminate all the logical solutions to a problem, then the illogical solution—even though it's impossible—has to be the right one.

Did they think they could shake me off as easily as that? Oh no, not now. Just when the dream was getting really interesting.

I say the secret to longevity is longevity. Hang in there long enough and keep working. When I was a kid I thought I knew everything there was to know about the business and the more I work, the more I know how much more there is to know and how much more I have to learn.

I've done tonnes of things that have not been successful -- movie after movie after movie that just went right in the toilet. You have to get yourself ready for those dips.

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

The days passed, as they do, and life went on.

I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.

There are no endings.

If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that... there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Every time some [developer] says, 'Nobody will go to the trouble of doing that,' there's some kid in Finland who will go to the trouble.

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard

Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.

Anything lost, can be found again expect for time wasted. A vision without action is merely a dream. Its the action that's pride, its the hustle, its the persistence.