Quotes About Persistence

I watch the people coming up from the shore road, staring at every girl with even the slightest resemblance to you, and then turning away when I realize my mistake. I perform this ritual over and over, never growing tired. I would gladly repeat my error a thousand times, two thousand times, if it means finding you, you who are wholly unique. Finally, I am at a loss to distinguish between the desire to see you as soon as possible and the pleasant prospect of waiting forever.

In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it's not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

Formless days passed one after the other, as if swollen into an indistinguishable mass by the damp weather.

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

Though u have seen many, but u haven't yet seen enough. The good work always pays wonderfully

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Ce n'était pas une vie; on existait, et c'est tout.

As long as the world's been the world, there's been those who live with it and those who refuse to accept it.

Run after her… One day, man will surely be able to catch a comet, but all the glories of this world will not console the man who allows the real opportunity in his life to slip away.

El mundo es de quienes van a buscarlo.

Alors j'avance, contre vents et marées, j'avance parce qu'il ne faut pas céder au désespoir, parce qu'il faut savoir faire d'une épreuve une raison de la surmonter.

Go about your work with a quiet confidence that cannot be shake...No matter what happens, remember if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can move mountains.' (Ducky Drake, UCLA Track Coach)

if one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you only do it when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.

just because an idea is simple, it isn't necessarily easy to follow.

he needed a crocodile sample to get out. Damned if he cared if it was some mutant crocodile that ran around on its back feet fighting tigers, he was going home.

Work hard at . . . something.

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

to be some exceptional, a Cartier-Bresson, a Capa or a Brandt, would require toil, rejection & struggle

to become exceptional, a Cartier-Bresson, a Capa or a Brandt, would require toil, rejection & struggle