Quotes About Persistence

I had a mustache for 10 years.

After I'd met her, a mutual friend prompted me to ask her out for dinner, but she said she had a night shoot. I thought it was her gentle way of rejecting me. The next day she invited me for a drink at the Pierre hotel, which turned into a three-hour talk.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

Hey, I've been doing what I do for a long time, my friend.

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

I've never forgot my roots and where I came from, and I'd not change a thing about my journey.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

My journey has not been a bed of roses.

My journey into the world of work after that was a bit more piecemeal than I would have liked, and it took a while to find the place in the world where I truly felt I belonged.

Higher, faster, longer - that is my motto.

My motto is 'Man Down,' and I have to live up to it. I don't go in looking for the knockout, but I let it happen naturally.

My motto has always been hard work.

During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

I'm at a point where I'm going where the journey leads me. I've set goals but I don't get really hung up if I don't achieve those goals right away or in my time, you know what I mean?

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.

Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.

Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.

I'm real big on making sure everything is right and taking my time.

I like to be consistent so I like to challenge myself with consistency.

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.