Quotes About Persistence

Most people that develop in darts or any sport probably take two or three years to find their feet.

It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

I literally learned everything I could try to do to get a date, and it did not work when I was younger. I heard people love musicians, so I took up the bagpipes.

The reason we don't give a date by which we will acquire something is because we don't want to create pressure on ourselves to buy something.

I always felt that, for me, as a woman, I always had to wait around. In all other arenas, I was ambitious and a go-getter, but when it came to dating, I wasn't supposed to go after what I wanted.

Those who used to ask my father to be ashamed of himself for training us in wrestling now say they wish they have daughters like me.

I just wanted to work with David Lynch.

Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again.

David Mamet gives me great heart. When I ask myself, 'I don't know if I can do this again,' Mamet would say, 'Oh yes, you can.'

Climbs like the Dawn Wall don't come around every day.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.

It's a challenge, and I like challenges. That's how it's been in my career since Day One.

I want to be dominant from day one.

People have been counting me out since Day One.

I've never had it easy in boxing, from day one, never. I've never asked for an easy run.

Even if you're working a day-to-day job in the meantime to support your creative endeavors, you shouldn't give up, and make sure you don't lose focus.

Winning is, of course, rewarding; who doesn't enjoy winning? But for me, it's about more than just winning: it's about knowing I'm putting in the day-to-day work to get a little bit better every time.

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.