Quotes About Persistence

Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.

In poker, you've got to start at the bottom level and work your way up. This advice applies to the limits that you play and the sizing of the bets that you make.

Here's a news flash: I hate to lose! Just watch any televised poker broadcast and you can see that's the case.

I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

Every time I get in the car, I'm just focused on being the fastest, trying to win the race, trying to get pole.

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.

Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work.

Everybody's saying, you know, 'You're so heroic and so on despite of the polio that you had and so on.' Look, I had polio when I was four. So when you're four years old, you know, you get used to things very, very quickly.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of Jazz, but they didn't want me. In Krakow, I wanted to conduct, they didn't want me. And I start to think, 'I have to do something.' In Krakow there was drama and music. I started to study.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.

I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.

Ideally, a dancer should put in 10 hours of daily practice to deliver a polished performance.

As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.

Just because I'm the top-grossing actress of all time does not mean I'm the highest paid. I've had to fight for everything that I have. It's such a fickle and political industry.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I've always done. That's really where my best stuff comes from. I don't know how it happens. It just happens.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

In modelling, some girls have been working for the last 15 years and they are still in the same cycle of what they have been doing. It is too big a pool and I am not going to travel with the herd. I need to pave my own way.

I may play poorly at times, but I'll always try to give my best effort.