Quotes About Persistence

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

A writer, or any artist, can't expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it's your calling.

Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)

Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.