Quotes About Persistence

Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.

Entrepreneurship, to me, means that you're a psychopath. The world doesn't work in the way you want it to, and you have a vision for how it should work. Unlike everyone else, this isn't OK with you. You have to go out, against every possible odd, and do something about it. That's what makes you crazy.

When you have things that are very important to you in life, when there are things you want to do and be - that takes work. It takes work to show up for your own story and show up for the dream and vision you have for yourself.

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

You can't just set the vision, take a nap, and not keep working on making your vision happen. Your intention has to be backed by work.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

unfinished business. For the next decade, Rita steered

Quase' é sempre o mais difícil, não é?" disse, certa tarde. "Quase conseguir alguma coisa, quase ter um bebê, quase conseguir uma tomografia sem problemas, quase não ter mais câncer." Pensei em como muitas pessoas evitam tentar coisas que realmente querem na vida, por ser mais doloroso chegar perto do objetivo, mas não consegui-lo, do que nem chegar a arriscar.

resist change.

Robert Frost poem: "The only way out is through.

Don't look at all five feet at once. Just take a step. And when you've taken that step, take one more.

The only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through it, not around it. But I can't even picture the entrance right now.

There's a popular saying, a paraphrase of a Robert Frost poem: "The only way out is through.

it ain't over till it's over.

There's a popular saying, a paraphrase of a Robert Frost poem: "The only way out is through." The only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through it, not around it. But I can't even picture the entrance right now.

People don't finish, Rose. People stop. To finish is to say okay, now it's right, never I'm going to change it. To stop is to say okay, it's not perfect, but I have to go to something else.

the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.