Quotes About Persistence

I think that work has been the key for me. Just like they say shooting will become easy if you just keep working at it, well, I love the dribble game-that brings excitement to the game.

Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

I am like a blind pig when I work.

I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

I don't think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.