Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

Sometimes you don't have your best stuff every day. You've just got to go out there and try to make pitches.

The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.

I never got a chance to participate in one, but I wanted to be in an iron man match. I really just wanted to go in there and I remember pitching a couple of times too, and it wasn't necessarily for an iron man match, but I wanted to just go out there for a full hour and just do a match.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.'

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

Throughout Pixar's history, we've had major meltdowns and crises. It's happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn't work, and you start all over again.

It's been a long road. I've been cut, I've been all over the place, but my mentality has never changed.

I never expected to be the face of sexual harassment. But I never give up on anything. So when placed in a new, challenging situation, it's like, 'I'm going to give this 110% because that's what I've done my entire life.'

My goal is to keep going and reach as far as possible to beat all odds placed before me.

I don't look at it as, 'Oh, I'm gonna keep making beats, and I'm gonna do that until I die.' But that's how some people look at it - gonna just keep making beats, get placement after placement.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

If you got a stuntman that can do it better than me, go do it. But if they can't do it better than me, I'm doing it myself - plain and simple.

It was clear that it wouldn't always be plain sailing for me.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

No breaks and no plan B. I've just been boxing, day in and day out.

I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.

I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

I'm a competitor. Any time you work hard and you envision something a certain way and it's not going as you planned and you see it, you know, you go back to the drawing board and you figure it out.

I'm a plodder, not a planner.