Quotes About Persistence

The experience of prayer when there is no awareness of God and no apparent response from ourselves should not lead us to escape from prayer or give it up.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

I am not a preacher; I'm a reacher.

If there's one thing that precedes my sleep, it's my work.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

Whether I was The Legend Killer, The Viper, The Apex Predator, nothing's really changed.

Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.

As far as ever wanting to give up, there have been a few times where I thought, 'Man, am I even good enough to do this?' Because people have said things to me like, 'You're too pretty. You shouldn't do comedy. Go ahead and get pregnant by a rich guy and chill.'

If you want to win the Premier League, you have to win away as well.

You have to be patient in the Premier League.

Everybody knows the Premier League is so difficult, we have to think step by step.

You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

You can not be in top five in Olympic after just one year's preparation.

I believe your best preparation is to just get your rest and just go out there and continue to do what you've been doing, not to try to do anything uncharacteristic that you haven't been doing. That's my main thing.

You have to prepare yourself mentally and physically by training and knowing how to take care of yourself the best you can so that you're able to fight and get to where you want to be.