Quotes About Persistence

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

I wasn't obsessed by magic. People say, 'How you can you claim you practiced eight hours a day and weren't obsessed?' Well, people go to a job they don't even like for eight hours a day; it's not obsessive if it's something you like.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

I don't see any harm in working, getting out there, and practicing.

With every album, I write above my ability, and my job as a guitarist is to catch up and be able to play it live. The thing about practicing is that once you master something, you don't have to remaster it. You just keep moving forward.

Sometimes I like practicing, sometimes I don't. But I like the result... I hardly ever get discouraged. Maybe right when it's very hard to get something done correctly, but then the idea flashes through of how to fix it. And I get encouraged. And other ideas flow.

I remember I went to Pune and bought an old bike and modified it. After that I started learning to ride from a friend, practicing in my backyard.

You can do whatever you want, you can run a lot, but playing the game and practicing, it's just different.

I am good at composing but I try to write lyrics. I am too bad at that. I am still trying. You become good after practicing and I am doing that.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

For me, winning was 'job done.' I would practise the day after.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

I have to give all praise to the Man above, because I never gave up on Him, and He never gave up on me.

When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.

He who labours, prays.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

I get up early, go to bed late, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. And I pray a lot.

I believe in God, stay close, and pray daily. I have to pray, believe, and do the work. Once I go on the ice, I do the best I can and I leave it. If the goalie saves my first shot, my next shot's going in.

I pray and I work hard - literally, that's it.

I'm the type who is always going to continue to work, continue to stay prayed up like I always am. At the end of the day, that's how you bounce back and how you keep going.