Quotes About Persistence

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

My work is one long triumph over my limitations.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....

I just want to do really good work.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

A lot of people don't want to put that work in they just want to be famous.

I still work out on a daily basis.

You come ready to work when you know that you are going to get a couple of gos and it. It kind of galvanizes everything and there is something about it that keeps it very alive.

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

Love the necessary hard work.

If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.