Quotes About Persistence

Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.

No matter what the general public says. When it's something you want, you have to block out that noise and negativity and just go for it.

I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one.

It's pretty draining, the amount of games I watch on a daily basis. It's pretty much non-stop.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

A win doesn't always come exactly how you want it to, but it's a win nonetheless. And anyone who doesn't think so, I don't even know what to tell them.

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.

I don't think I would deliver the best work if I would do several projects at the same time. So it's one at a time, but I work a lot. I work nonstop actually, but that's what I like.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

From the time I roll out of the cot at 6 A.M. to the time I fall asleep after midnight, I get to do what I love nonstop.

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

Life normally rewards you for hard work.

Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull it.

I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.