Quotes About Persistence

I been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going.

I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

I've wanted to be a starter ever since I was a little kid, so I wasn't going to give up on that dream.

There's nothing wrong in starting all over again and taking it step-by-step.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

When anybody is just starting the process of cooking, I always say it takes practice, and nobody got to be a great cook on their first try.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.

We in America believe in starting over - and over and over.

I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a blank paper starting over.

Especially after the Chicks' success, it's hard to think of starting over.

I think that most things, if you want to use them properly, take quite a lot of time and I don't necessarily have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow the first bits to actually get the starting point.

Somewhere in your house is a game that could use a good beating. Pick it up. Play to the end. Get all the achievements/trophies out of it. So you've maxed out all your points. Play it again at a harder difficulty. Do something. It's startling the number of games people own but haven't beaten for one reason or another.

Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I've wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it.

Follow your curiosity, and have the courage to meet the challenge. That's where science starts, in my opinion.

I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.

The begonia is an amazing plant... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

Everybody starts off in the same place going into sport; you don't go into any sport being good at it.

I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape.

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.