Quotes About Persistence

My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.

If I didn't understand a cartoon in a newspaper, I'd just turn the page.

When I graduated from college, I tried my hardest to get a job at an accounting firm, and it just wasn't meant to be. I ended up delivering pizzas and newspapers. I knew my life was cracked up to be a little more.

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Football is like this: after every game you have to do better in the next and the season is the same.

The first time I was in the ring, I wasn't good at it, and I honestly thought, 'Maybe this isn't for me.' Then I went back the next day and the next day and the next day... because I loved it more than anything.

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.

I tell people to use me as example of what they can do if they don't give up. I like people to see me as a 'girl next door' who conquered and went after what she wanted.

I have always gone above and beyond, whether I've been given 30 seconds or 30 minutes, but at some point, you have to deliver and go to the next level.

Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

Anytime you finish a climb, there's always the next thing you can try.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Make something simple a few times until you 'master' it and move on to the next thing. Take a cooking class! Buy a cookbook that specializes in foods or a cuisine you enjoy.

You just go out there and do the best you can. If it hits, it hits. And if it doesn't, you go on to the next thing.

The thing we all know is that you can't take a day off... in anything. If you do, the next thing you know, it can all be taken away from you just like that.

When I booked 'Arrested Development,' which was a fantastic job, and I was working with an amazing cast and some of the best writing I've ever done, I still found myself looking for the next thing.

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

I'm constantly working. I am constantly going to the next thing.

I love making records, and part of really doing that and being happy about it is just that each time I've done something, I come to terms with what maybe is wrong with it, and then I move on to the next thing.

I get great satisfaction from trying to get better and trying to do the next thing as well as I can.

It can be heart-breaking when you don't get something you really want, but there's always the next time.

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.