Quotes About Persistence

I've found my calling with Twitter. It's all about the amount of interaction you do, and the traffic you move, and I'm really good at that. I keep going and going and going, and no one can believe that I can keep it up.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.

Innovation is like looking for pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. You have to find a lot of pieces that don't match to find the one or two pieces that match.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

You always get one or two people that aren't going to be saying nice things. It doesn't really bother me, but you're always going to get a few people like that.

I was in love with a girl in my class when I was in primary school, and she obviously thought I was a freak, so that wasn't working out. And the the guys in my class, every two weeks they'd say, 'Hey, we spoke to her, and she really likes you now. You should go and ask her again.' And then I'd go and ask her again.

Chemistry is not built in one practice or two weeks even. It comes over time.

Usually I do a job, and, like, two weeks later, it disappears and is replaced with something else, but 'Get Out' kept growing and growing and growing, and it keeps taking me to rooms I could never get in before.

Atkins - I was on that for two weeks. All I lost was 14 days.

We do the best we can and the great thing about this sport is every two weeks you know whether it is good enough or not.

Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!

I've always been the type of person that thinks, 'If someone else can do it, so can I.'

Hong Cha-young is the type who doesn't back down but breaks through fear and moves forward without hesitation. Her head-on,' break-through' attitude in life is similar to mine. But her speech, behavior, and reactions were thoroughly built for the character of Hong Cha-young.

I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on my sister's couch and can't pay-the-rent type broke.

Hopefully I've gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.

I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.

The most successful entrepreneurs in the world have a combination of the right type of personality and fortunate life circumstance. A lot of them have been doing it most of their life.

Find a way and make it happen: I've always been the type of person who couldn't rest until I found a way to make something happen. If I couldn't go around the rock, I'd find a way to go over it or under it or through it.

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.