Quotes About Persistence

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

Anything is possible for anybody if they work hard enough.

Anytime someone has said to me, 'You can't do that,' I have answered, 'Watch me.'

Anytime that you're getting games in, you're going to get better.

I doubt myself a lot but go forward at full throttle anyway.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

I have a lot of self-belief, and I think it will happen. I think I will just get better and better. It's what great players do; they don't let up on anything. And I wouldn't do that anyway.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

It's my life. It just continues to go forward from 'The Apprentice.'

I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

My main goal is to leave everything I have out there in that ring at every arena.

I just want to go out there and do my best. You can't argue with your best.

Even when you think you should be playing more, you have to stay positive for when the opportunities arise.

My dad was a supplier to the army and was not a very well-off person.

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

As an artiste, you just continue doing your work and enjoy the process of working... and that's what I've always done.

Tout pouvoir humain est un composé de patience et de temps.

Las almas grandes están siempre dispuestas a hacer de una desgracia una virtud. Existe además un atractivo irresistible en obstinarse en hacer un bien en aquello en lo que los demás ven un motivo de reproche: la inocencia tiene el atractivo propio del vicio.

Il voyait le monde comme un océan de boue dans lequel un homme se plongeait jusqu'au cou, s'il y trempait le pied.

finding that art is long and life is short — ars longa et vita brevis — did not commit the mistake of wasting their time and lessening their powers of creation by silly and insipid intrigues.

Women like to perform prodigies, break rocks, and soften natures which seem of iron.