Quotes About Persistence

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

The reality of my life is it's about 25 percent music, and everything else I do is so I can get that 40 minutes later to go play. And it is unquestionably worth every second of it.

Health comes before everything else and football can wait.

All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.

I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

As long as you're excellent, things work out for you.

All I know that whatever I do will be excellent work.

When you work for a long time, you look for things that excite you.

There are people who like my work. So there are exciting things coming up to me, but it's slow of course.

Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.

I've never made an excuse with my time in Arizona. It just didn't work out for whatever reason.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

If you make excuses, you're going to believe in a lie. And I don't believe in that lie that you can't make it, that somebody is trying to hold you back.

I know what to do and I go and execute.

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

I will exhaust every opportunity there is in football.

It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.

I never expected to become an actor at all. You can do anything you put your mind to it!