Quotes About Persistence

You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

Finishing something is nearly always a herculean effort; bringing a job to completion requires resolve. People would be surprised to learn that most of the stuff out in the world is only a small percentage of what could have been accomplished.

You can't win them all, but I can.

I tried so hard and got so far. But in the end, it doesnt even matter

Never forget the blood sweat and tears The uphill struggle over years the fear and, trash talking and the people it was to, and the people that started it just like you

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.

I wasn't brave, but I was stubborn and prideful. Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.

The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.

the good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

A obstinação pura e simples é mais durável que a coragem, embora não seja tão

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?

La ocupación sin pausa era una especie de terapia. La servicialidad agresiva disimulaba el hecho de que, en algún sentido importante, era de poca utilidad.

No way through but through...Do the next thing, Gabriella, and then the next, and then the next.

Lovely One, if you dare to dream, you must be brave enough to fight.

By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

Well, here's a little secret, kiddo - that's pretty much how everyone down here feels most of the time. But we keep walking anyway. We just keep moving forward. And if we're lucky, we find some people who don't mind stumbling around with us, and somehow that makes it a little easier to stay on our feet.

The show must go on, even when it's not the show you expected to be in.

Find something you'd want to keep doing forever," she said, "even if you stink at it. And then if you're lucky, with lots of practice, then one day you won't stink so much.

And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.