Quotes About Persistence

My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

As an assistant, when you wake up in the morning, you're opening your laptop and watching film. Then the game starts, and you're watching it until you finally fall asleep.

Any beginning is difficult, but when you're opening the newspaper every day, and it's all about how bad you are, sometimes even you begin to believe that.

If you set the bar so high like in my opening season then you do have to try to maintain that.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

If you play well and consistently, it opens up a lot of opportunities.

I can't open doors that aren't open. But if a door opens, I would be happy to walk through.

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.

I want to be known as trying to be one of the best of the best - whether I get there or not, it's up to opinion.

Even if I had not been waiting but had shut the doors against you, you should have remembered that no one can possibly shut the doors against love forever.

we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars

ya, aku memang seorang pemimpi. karena pemimpi adalah orang yang dapat menemukan jalannya dengan diterangi cahaya bulan, dan orang pertama yang melihat matahari terbit sebelum seluruh dunia melihatnya.

Things last either too long or not long enough.

Saat üçü vurdu, dördü vurdu, dört buçuÄŸu vurdu ama o yerinden k?m?ldamad?. Hayat?n örgüsü içindeki parlak renkli lifleri bir araya toplamaya, onlarla bir örüntü dokumaya çal???yordu; içinde dolaÅŸt???, tutkunun kan rengi labirentinde yolunu bulmaya çal???yordu.

Practice precedes perfection.

nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Les personnes qui m'ont adoré (...) se sont obstinées à vivre bien au-delà du terme de mon amour pour elles ou de leur amour pour moi.

I left her in the forest of Arden; I shall find her in an orchard in Verona.

If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.

Destroy your manuscript, but save whatever you have inscribed in the margin out of boredom, out of helplessness, and, as it were, in a dream. (The Egyptian Stamp)