Quotes About Persistence

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

If you end up doing what you are passionate about, the journey is so easy.

I've been passionate about the game of golf since I first held a club in my hand. I don't ever see that changing.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

I always tell people, start with what you're passionate about. If you truly are passionate, you'll keep it up.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

Acting was always there in my mind, but I never tried too hard to take it up. I had to pay my bills, so I did whatever came my way. Music happened first, so I took it up quite passionately.

I do commit really, really passionately. It's why I only work every five years. It's exhausting.

Anyone who knows me knows that I will continue to work on 'SpongeBob SquarePants' and my other passions for as long as I am able.

I have to just keep being aggressive. Once I see openings I just have to take them and not be passive.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

Even if you see me with some pasta, I'm still strangling and arm-locking people at least five days a week and I need that.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

I used the same hand to pat my back and to pick me up when I get shattered after losing out on a film due to reasons except your credibility to that role.

I'm the guy who come through a lot of hard patches. I've seen a lot of hardships.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.