Quotes About Persistence

If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

At the start of the '50s, I had short hair. And I was getting nowhere.

There ain't nobody going to run me out of nowhere.

It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else.

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

I'm not going nowhere, no matter who I fight.

I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.

We don't mind if people think we've come from nowhere. Because once they've become fans, they'll delve deeper in and will be surprised to find we've been around awhile and that we've had a lot of experience doing this.

It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.

There were numerous times where, at the end of a week of working on a song, there was a part of it that we still weren't feeling, so we'd scrap the whole thing and start from scratch the next week.

When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing. Because there's a path with that. It's very different when you say, 'I have an idea and it doesn't exist.' It's a very different path.

I had no clue what I wanted to do. I tried nursing, I tried science, I tried English. I just kept bouncing back and forth.

I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

I remember, often, when you tell people you're doing a book about board games, they think you're totally nuts. And that might be warranted. But I feel like if we can't get the story of Monopoly right... what hope is there for anything else?

I'm going to try to keep believing that if you do good work, people will keep calling. Whenever that fails, I'll just start going nuts on Twitter.

We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.