Quotes About Persistence

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.

I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.

I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

When I go to sleep, I want to know that I have experimented as an actor, and I am constantly seeking to evolve.

Ever since 'Single White Female,' the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants has become an abiding literary trope.

All of the Divas are given opportunities. It's kind of the way you go after them and what you do with them. I feel like I was able to seize the opportunity I was given, and now I am Divas champion.

Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

I am very selfish when it comes to work, and I only care about work.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

I hear a lot of rumours about me selling the club or leaving, absolutely no way.

I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away.

You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.

Getting cut four separate times really never stopped me.