Quotes About Persistence

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

I said no thank you a dozen times, and fuck off once.

I stayed where I was and watched. The man and the corridor. He didn't make any other noise, and the corridor didn't do anything that corridors don't normally do.

Not before the harvest is in, and the mules are rested

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.

Apenas naquilo que o homem faz, segue fazendo, naquilo em que persevera, ele mostra caráter.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

She has seen the good, the bad and the ugly, and yet her dreams still seem far from being realised.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Always Hungry and Stay Hungry.

To Win, You have to accept defeat

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.

Why didn't I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams were blank. But after twenty-five years of writing, I have come to understand that those pages are never blank.

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Discuss. Simon Warde Bognor Regis, West Sussex

For the genuine believer] There are moments in life when God's pursuit of us seems like that of a persistent mosquito, constantly buzzing around our heads and causing us pain, and we are utterly powerless to shake him off.

I lay in my bed for I don't know how long doing my best to work things out, and my best certainly wasn't good enough.

I held on to this fantasy like a stubborn little pit bull.