Quotes About Persistence

On one level, we're on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage, or they'll be an echo in the mic. It's like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way.

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.

I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.

If I'm connected to an idea, it just doesn't let me go. All I have to do is catch up to the image in my head by doing the practical steps to get there.

I am not in a hurry... I take slow steps but never go backwards.

You take your steps, you don't skip through and try to go straight to the top, that's just disrespectful.

I learned a long time ago that you can't skip steps.

I don't really pay attention to the long-term, I take short steps - that is what I have done through my whole career, from non-league to the Premier League.

Spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can't stop you from enjoying it," he wrote in April 1946. "The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators, nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it... Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger... emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage.

I mention all this to all of you for a reason. I want to make sure all of you—especially the more wimpy, compliant, and fuddle-brained of your lot—get the message here: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

to square all these circles?

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.