Quotes About Persistence

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

I want longevity. I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to continue to do good work and projects that inspire me, and if I can have fun while doing it, that's the dream.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don't.

I'll play as long as I'm still willing to work this much, to do all these sacrifices

I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go.

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

Visualize your ultimate goal and then do the work to make it happen.

Perfection can never be attained by work.

In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work, what need have you to reply to any party?

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

When you finally get something together after hours of work and it's good, you know it's not for nothing!

In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.