Quotes About Persistence

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

I like to work and am a focused person.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

I pretty much work all the time.

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

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.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.

You learn that you can never not work. If you really want to make it to the big leagues, there's no such thing as "I'll start this first thing Monday" - you gotta do it now.

Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.

I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.