Quotes About Persistence

I don't think anybody's goal is to be mediocre. I think everybody should want to be the best. I've always felt that way. I want to be at the best at everything I do.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

Anchoring is a different medium. I wanted to try it and not stop working, I didn't want to sit at home and say, 'Will do that one show when it comes along.'

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

The last thing I wanted to do was act, because it was the path of least resistance.

Many artists feel resistance on the way up.

When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.

I've gotten resistance for my entire career.

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

You just have to keep your head down and do your work and hope that audiences respond.

As soon as you win the Cup, you don't want to lose that feeling. You want to win more than one. As soon as you taste it, it's kind of like a really good restaurant. You go there once, and you want to come back more than once because it's great.

I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.

Doesn't matter if you're playing football, running track or managing a restaurant, you want to be the best at what you do in life.

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

Honestly, I've learned from results, period. Everything isn't a failure. Sometimes it just doesn't work. That's not a failure. Maybe it just means it wasn't its time.

The way to resumption is to resume.

Retire? I will never retire.

I'm never going to retire.

This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.

I can't retire.