Quotes About Persistence

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art.

diligent focus on the task at hand.

I'm like an old record--Be my guest is the signature song; Please go away, always on side B.

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.

Remember that if what you're fighting for matters, the obstacles don't.

The less talented we are, the more focused we must be.

The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows.

It was a patient business, talking comets down to the speed of life.

But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.

The good days are when you perform; the slow days are when you learn to perform better. The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

He tried. He really did. For a good ninety seconds he molded the clay as best he could. His final effort came out resembling a pear.

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

Mr. Gardner, why people gotta keep you down when you have your dream?" Again, I was having a long overdue conversation with myself. "Well," I said, "people who can't do something themselves, they're jealous, so they wanna tell you that you can't do it. But you know what? You got a dream, it's yours and you gotta protect it. So, don't let anyone tell you that you can't. If you want something, go get it. Period.

It's okay to fail, it's not okay to quit.

Don't listen to them," I said. "In fact, don't ever let anybody tell you that you can't do something. Not your parents, your teachers. Nobody.

be in it to win it.

Yo, Kyle," said Miguel. "Exactly how many board games have you played?" "Enough to know that you don't ever quit until somebody else actually wins.

sometimes you learn more from losing than you do from winning. When you lose, you learn how to keep going.

Or as Thomas Edison put it, "Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Chris Grabenstein

Chris Grabenstein

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