Quotes About Persistence

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where the ideas come from - from years of working on it and thinking about it.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

Anyone who makes a life of what they love is a hero to me, and it's important for those people to be visible in every kind of life, every kind of love, every kind of work.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

I don't focus on the results. Put my head down, put my hoodie up, and do the work.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.