Quotes About Persistence

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

I believe in taking things slow, one step at a time.

I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

My family always believed in me, even when I didn't. Having that love and support made me not afraid of failing. I knew my mom would be proud of me just for taking a chance and pursuing my dream.

In Formula One nothing is easy, but I can feel I'm taking the right steps, that I'm working in the proper way.

I'm one of the few artists who started from the ground up for real. Not taking no records to the radio station begging no DJ to play it. When DJs started playing my records they called me for them. I ain't pull up and ask nobody for nothing, I ain't pay nobody nothing.

The reason I make more films is that I work all the time without taking a break, and I enjoy it.

I made my way in this league playing special teams and then kind of worked my way into playing receiver. It was always just kind of doing whatever I could do and taking advantage of all the opportunities that I got.

Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.

To tell you the truth, if you're looking at rising pretty high, then you need to find a way of taking care of these problems and not taking time off. At the end of the day, it is a very tough competition. And in a very tough competition, if you just take breaks, then it's going to become much, much more difficult.

The tale of the actor struggling to make it is oft-told for a reason.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I've done it.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

The big talent is persistence.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

As cliche as it sounds, don't stop. I feel like so often people will have talent or have potential, and they'll quit because they don't get anywhere as soon as they want to.

I have some talent. So, I'm going to show it off. No matter what, I'm gonna keep going.

Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

My talent lies in my hard work.

You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't bring it every night then nothing matters.

For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'