Quotes About Persistence

The Champions League is our obsession, the No. 1 objective for Juventus.

Sometimes you don't want to abandon a project to go to another move and come back, so maybe because I have a manic obsession I stick to my idea, and I'd rather wait than do something that is not my main passion.

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

I can be rather obsessive - especially when it comes to breaking through to the next level as an actor.

When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.

I don't understand why 'obsessive' has a negative connotation, I'm an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to it.

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

You can become obsessive, but you enjoy it - that's what you like doing. It is just how I am. I don't try my hardest to be like this.

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

The greatest obstacle in 'Tetris' is time and one's own ability to navigate it - kind of like life itself.

I have always wanted to be the best, and it drives me every day, no matter the obstacle.

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

I don't believe in giving up. Though there are a lot of obstacles, heartaches and disappointments, you shouldn't allow these things to break you.

There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles, I become more determined. It's just something weird within me.

The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

There are always going to be obstacles. I think the bigger your aspirations, the larger the obstacles.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.

I never give up when I encounter obstacles in my way. I just continue going until I reach my career objectives.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.