Quotes About Persistence

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.

You can't just stick with something that doesn't work.

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.

If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

I think I'm confident because I'm free, I challenge myself, and I stick to what I do.

There's a lot of songs and songwriters out there - you have to make something stand out to pitch songs. Sometimes you have to be bold and just try something different. And just stick with it - don't give up if nothing happens.

I've been in the business 60 years, and it's taken me this long to play a scene with a monkey. That's what happens if you stick around.

The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.

College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who was a songwriter, which I didn't realize was a real job.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

I'm sticking to what I've always said, either the right movie gets made or no movie gets made.

There's something to be said for perseverance. We've been sticking it out a long time.

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Sticking to our guns creatively is the only way we'll ever survive as a band and be happy.

Sticking with your craft goes a long way in ensuring that you'll be successful.

I've learned that sticking around counts for something.

Before anybody knew who I was, I was just working on what I love and having fun with it, and I'm sticking with that - because, ultimately, that's what people want to see.

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

It's funny, but no matter how good an artist is, it's not until he stands on his own two feet and sticks to his guns that things are going to come together.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.