Quotes About Persistence

It is frustrating, but all I can do is just keep winning, and hopefully, people will stand up and take notice eventually.

I stand up all four quarters even when I'm not playing.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

Stand up comedy can be a tough world to break into. It can take years of painful soul searching, disappointing performances, and pounding the pavement day in and day out with very little reward.

As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up comedy. It's a very competitive world, and it was a challenge to find my own voice, stick to my guns.

I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and clubs for over 30 years. That's a long time.

I'm not perfect. But I hold myself to a high standard every day.

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

You need to perform consistently, and if you're raising the standard, you have to stand by it. You have to keep on doing well.

Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.

I used to watch a lot of people and think, 'You're not dedicated.' It's half an hour into the game and they have dropped their standard. They weren't putting the effort in.

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I've had no formal acting training.

Training isn't fun for me. I do it because it's what my body needs, and I have a standard. It's a thing I make sure I do.

You want to score runs at the highest average you can. That's what motivates you to keep driving the standards.

Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself.

My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.