Quotes About Persistence

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.

We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

I can always go back to waiting tables, but I won't be very good at it. I'll never be good at it.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this.

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

Entrepreneurs start businesses because ... they have no choice. Passion and energy drive them on good days and sustain them on bad days