Quotes About Persistence

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Thomas Mann

If you believed to your core that everything really is figureoutable, what would you now do? What would you create or heal or transform or transcend? Who would you become?

a fall is never final unless you stay on the ground.

if you're committed to figuring things out, all excuses have got to go.

Rule 1. All problems (or dreams) are figureoutable. Rule 2. If a problem is not figureoutable, it's not really a problem—it's a fact of life or law of nature (e.g., death or gravity). Rule 3. You may not care enough to figure this problem out or achieve this particular dream. That's okay. Find another problem or dream that ignites a blazing fire in your heart and go back to Rule 1.

What can I learn from this? How can this work for me?

It's never about the lack of money or time or anything else. It's about your internal game, your commitment to do whatever it takes to be creative, get resourceful, and figure it out. To find or make a way ahead, no matter what.

I say this because deep in my bones I am that certain everything really is figureoutable. Yes, even if you're starting from scratch. Even if you've already tried and failed. Even if you don't have a clue what the hell you're doing or why things keep going wrong. Even if the world has told you time and time again that you can't. Even if you've been born into extraordinary challenges or find yourself with the deck stacked against you.

You can scare yourself into stuckness by assuming you have to make radical life changes in order to make progress. You don't. Real change is practically invisible as it's happening. No trumpets sound. A marching band will not play at your door. Meaningful progress doesn't feel particularly exciting. Most days, it feels like work. You show up, grind it out (sometimes joyfully, sometimes not), and repeat.

If I didn't believe the answer could be found, I wouldn't be working on it. Dr. Florence Sabin

Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally; it comes from what you do consistently.

Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

Starting small and sucky beats staying stucky.

Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.

Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you, and some days you cannot even find the woods.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

Step by step a mountain is conquered.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.