Quotes About Persistence

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work.

Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

That's why I work every day. Ev-er-y day. I want to knock people out.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

I would have to say that I'm haunted. I'm haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won't be satisfied unless I do great work.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.