Quotes About Persistence

My objective since I started my career was: become the champion, remain the champion, retire the champion.

Our objective is always to win. Every day, every game, and every competition.

Whenever success does come, I enjoy it for a moment but then put it to the side and focus on the main objective.

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

When you play Futures and Challengers for three, four years, you're playing in obscurity. You play the game for other reasons. You don't play the game for money or attention. You play the game because you like to play. You play the game because you enjoy the journey.

We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

Anything I do, from movies to politics, I ensure that I observe, learn and give it my all.

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

You can be anybody you want to be as long as you're obsessed.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

I've had a lifelong passion, and really obsession, with professional wrestling since I was a very small kid.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'