Quotes About Persistence

Every night I still ask the Lord, Why? and havent heard a decent answer yet

stick at it like a benni addict

Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

They never asked, I kept offering.

I promise I shall never give up and that I'll die yelling and laughing.

Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, Perché? E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente.

et je trainais derrière eux comme je l'ai fait toute ma vie derrière les gens qui m'intéressent

Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.

We gotta go and never stop till we get there. Where we going, man? I don't know but we gotta go.

There is a patience of the wild--dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself--that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food;

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.

There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself.

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand as well.

Don't loaf around and wait for inspiration. Light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it, you will get something that looks remarkably like it.

La vita non è sempre questione di tenere in mano delle buone carte ma, a volte, di saper giocare bene una mano svantaggiosa.

Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

The best things in life aren't easy. My career kind of sums that up. From the start of it to the end of it, there were a lot of twists and turns, a lot of different adversities. Having overcome those, it makes you stronger.

If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would've been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we've had significantly more than nine stoppages and odd twists and turns.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

This is racing. There is going to be twists and turns. You're going to be dealt setbacks.