Quotes About Persistence

I prepare so I can be in the whole game.

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

I don't believe that if one door closes, that's the end. You're in control of that, but you need to seek opportunities and prepare for them.

I just prepare and train to be able to stay on top as long as I can and retire on top.

I think you just prepare the way you've always prepared and go about the game the same way and see where you stand at the end of the year.

If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

I'm just going to keep preparing for the best.

If you have a dream, never stop preparing for that.

Even though Traf-O-Data wasn't a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft's first product a couple of years later.

My journey to Sridevi started when I was preparing for my debut film 'Shiva.' I used to walk from Nagarjuna's office in Chennai to a neighbouring street where Sridevi used to live, and I used to just stand and watch Sridevi's house from outside her gate.

The ability to forget is a prerequisite for an entrepreneur.

Making my presence felt in Bollywood was one hell of a journey.

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

It's very important that the issues that Bernie is talking about are carried forward and he is intending to do that. Winning the presidency is not enough.

Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.

I try to show up and do my job and get my work in every day, keep pressing forward.

I'd go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I'd stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.

Basically if you're trying to write films in England you might as well decide to hide for two years. It's just meetings with people who don't really have any money but pretend they do.