Quotes About Persistence

One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

I've realized that I can never not do the nail salon joke, and I will have to talk about Bon Qui Qui for eternity.

There is no set way of getting a role - you don't give an exam, score well, and then nail a film.

It's OK if you fail a few times. Just keep getting back up until you nail it.

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

When I first came to New York I did nails, and I really didn't get a lot of money.

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

I feel like we were so naive when we first got started, we didn't even know we'd be around for two years, given how tough it was when we were first starting out.

I want to be one of the greats. I feel like the money and all that is going to come, but I want to be a name that, like, when you say Nas or Jay Z, that's forever.

I was still on the bench at the beginning in Naples, then I started to play and I wanted to enjoy my moments. I worked so hard to get into the team and I didn't want to leave - that would have been too easy.

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

I got a hold of NASA, four times, I said, 'I want to become an astronaut.' But nobody would take me. I didn't think that I would ever get to go up.

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.

I feel like 'Nashville' can go on indefinitely.

It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.

It is a very, very difficult thing to get into the Brazil national team, so when you achieve that, it makes you really happy, and you want it to continue for as long as possible.

I don't think anything comes naturally; you just have to work very hard.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

You're on a journey to reach a goal of unimaginable worth and promise, and you can't be burdened with cumbersome pride or ego.

Sometimes it is a dark path we must tread so that long more for the light, we shall.