Quotes About Persistence

I won't tell you how many hours a day I work because you wouldn't believe it. But don't worry; I am in bed at 11 p.m., sleep well and get up early, without an alarm clock.

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.

I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

Dreams must be steady (Sthir). When dreams are steady, they take form of determination (Sankalp) and when you combine them hard-work, they turn into accomplishments (Siddhi)!

If you love the work, it will love you back.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

Go early to bed. Start maybe working out a little sooner. Stay patient. Stop smoking.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

Fortunately work begets work.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

It isnt always hard work that does the job.