Quotes About Persistence

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

I've made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I'm determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day.

It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

What Nintendo will do is simply try to do our best, believing that our strategy is right.

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.

One airball is not going to stray away from me shooting a few more.

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

It is an interesting thing. Every time I try and stray from the path of food, I get whacked.

When I was young, I was on a real hot streak with 'Crazy Climber.' There was a good three-week span where I couldn't get that game out of my head. I could not get back to the arcade fast enough to try and climb up there and not get kicked by a potted plant this time. That one got under my skin.

Ten, 20, 30, winning, losing streak, whatever it is, we've just got to keep pushing, keep getting better each day.

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.