Quotes About Persistence

The good news is that even if your early crepes have funny lumps and bulges or aren't paper-thin, they're still gonna be plenty edible and delicious.

I do like to think I'm a bit of a fighter. There have been plenty of times when I have felt like not getting out of bed. Things do hurt me, but I dust myself off and get on with it.

Maybe my plodding style has its benefits, I suppose.

Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it's not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you're saying - even if only to yourself - 'This is the best I can do.' And because it's not perfect, that's really hard.

Sometimes you have to just plug away, plug away in your game of football and maybe when your opponent gets a bit more tired you get that little extra metre and that's when you score the goals.

You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

I've been going to school, did theater for a long time, been plugging away for 10, 15 years. I was told earlier in my career, it's all laying track... one day, all that track is going to come together in some way, and it has.

You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.

Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.

I just enjoy batting. I love it. It's a craft and I love plugging away at it. I guess getting to do that in a match was the ultimate pleasure to be out there and do something I've been doing for a long time.

I'm just grateful that I didn't give up on myself and I just kept plugging at it.

We played a lot of live shows, we just kept plugging away and playing music and people kept coming back.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

Once the shooting starts, we don't mind whether it is 43 degrees plus or minus 6 degrees: we just keep working.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.

I'm not fast, so I have to be able to throw from the pocket.

There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

My father would take me to auditions and put me in the room right in the corner because he was watching me; he couldn't get a babysitter. He'd be at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the LES until four in the morning, trying to tell his story and using his craft, but because he had a kid that didn't let him stop.

No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end.

You finish the damn match, point blank, period. That's it, and I always finish, even if I'm finishing on my back.