Quotes About Persistence

I have been followed by enough police robots to know by now how indestructible they are. You can blow them up or knock them down and they keep coming after you; dragging themselves by one good finger and spouting saccharine morality all the while.

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

Schrijven is stratenmaken: op je knieën liggen en achteruit kruipen.

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

Be fearless in pursuit of your goal.

Be ready for huge failures to achieve huge success, Be receptive for criticism. It can be constructive too.!

Great Struggle will always lead to Great Success. Hard work or smart work doesn't matter. What matters is your COMMITMENT. Have the endurance to hunt for DREAMS. he who never gives up becomes unbeatable. Height of your persistence will decide the height of your success.

Performance Is Worth A Fortune Than Promises. Persistence is far more important than perfection. Possibilities are for winners as problems are for quitters. Quality of your preparation determines the quality of your PERFORMANCE. reaching the goal is not a problem. problem is not having a goal at all. Scores are temporary, education is permanent. Make the best of it. season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.' - Martina Navratilova

Life does not have a stop sign, only a speed limiter.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

typically sit for 18 months at a stretch,

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

John Milton rose every day at 4 a.m. to write Paradise Lost. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire took Edward Gibbon 26 painstaking years to complete. Ernest Hemingway is said to have reviewed The Old Man and the Sea manuscript 80 times before submitting if for publication. It took Noah Webster 36 years to compile Webster's Dictionary.

Hope will never be silent.

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

Resistance is its own reward.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.

Patient endurance is a sign of progress.