Quotes About Persistence

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

With hard work and focus dreams do come true.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

There are reports that Kim Jong Un climbed North Korea's highest mountain. Kim Jong Un said all it took to climb that mountain was hard work, determination, and lying about climbing that mountain.

There is no happiness without hard work

The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

I want to accomplish my work and fulfill my dreams, and do something with my life, and I hope I'll be able to accomplish it. It's very much work, but I like it.

I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

Good work is good work wherever it is.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.