Quotes About Persistence

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

Don't be afraid to discard work you know isn't up to standard. Don't save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.