Quotes About Persistence

My Vikings class was super fun, and I have loved the computer science classes. Coding, for me, is like a boyfriend that makes you really upset, and then you can't get enough of him.

The one trait in a lot of dyslexic people I know is that by the time we got out of college, our ability to deal with failure was very highly developed. And so we look at most situations and see much more of the upside than the downside.

We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of some of what we achieved. The style was very disciplined, and we had the sense to keep things short.

In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.

But Donald heard on Radio Disney that they were giving a Nintendo 64 away to the ninetieth caller every day for a week. He listened all week and kept calling in until he gauged the perfect time, and one day he ran upstairs and said, 'I won it!' He's always been able to will what he wants.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

We've had some huge moments. But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded. There's been no overnight success here, and we haven't dealt with a whole lot of hot and cold.

On a mountain covered with ice, the sharp points in front of your shoes help cling and climb. But on Carstensz Pyramid, I had to pull my body upward.

You don't need to move mountains when love will fly you over.

Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.

You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.

Any woman of virtue won't be easy to come by. She will make you jump over hurdles to reach her.

Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.

Go ahead with your life your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.