Quotes About Persistence

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

We all work to succeed in whatever we choose to do in life, so every success only pushes me to do better and I am constantly trying to improve my craft as an actor.

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

Wherever the good work is I'll go.

People always say to me, "What if it doesn't work?" If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.

You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.