Quotes About Persistence

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

I love to work. I'll work all the time, unless somebody stops me. I love it, love it, love it!

I always come back around. I make it work.

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.