Quotes About Persistence

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

If the sky was the limit, none of our heroes would have reached the moon.

Small steps add up to complete big journeys.

Hope floats but effort propels.

My MOTIVATION was struggling..I got Tired of it!

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

Success=Assinchair

Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.

I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.

When I said I could beat Alexander Gustafsson in a standup fight, people laughed at me. They thought, 'No way.' But I believe in what I'm seeing every day.

I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.

That's what's great about standup comedy: the instant feedback. You get up on stage, you tell a joke, if it doesn't work, come back the next day with a better version of it.

If you want to do standup, you have to go on stage. That's the only way to get good - stage times.

The thing I wanted more than anything was to make a career of standup - and I have.

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'

I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and then blindly follow your passions when they don't immediately make money out of the gate.

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

In 'Star Wars: Episode II,' when Jango Fett is chasing Obi Wan Kenobi through an asteroid field, they needed a big asteroid to shatter into a million pieces, and I had to figure out how to do the fracturing, write the code, and show an artist how to use it.

When I wanted the CEO of Starbucks to keep me in mind for their board, I sent him a note rather than calling. I call it dripping: You don't want to be like a faucet full-on; you want to drip just enough that they don't forget about you.

I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

This stardust won't settle, because none of us should settle.

I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad's an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.