Quotes About Persistence

I just had this drive, this determination to do something different and to take my career in a different direction.

The love of what you do, combined with your belief in what you do, will not determine your success. It will determine how hard you will work and how dedicated you will be to achieving it. Success just shows up from there.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.

My dad is a very determined person.

I had a lot of negative comments, but it made me stronger and made me want to do more in my game. It made me more determined if anything.

I'm very determined, and I know I can achieve, so I don't let little setbacks put me down.

I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.

If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it.

Problems just make me more determined.

I feel more comfortable each time I sit down to write, but I'm determined to get better and better.

Gunsmoke' had been a successful radio show for many years before and I was determined to go with it on TV.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

I started developing 'The Revenant' before 'Birdman.'

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!

I'm always focused on constantly developing.

I first took up golf in 1994, and used to play intermittently. I couldn't devote as much time to it as I would've liked.

When I was around ten, I decided I would devote myself and my life to music.

Professional wrestling is the first non-criminal activity that I truly, truly applied myself to and believed in and devoted myself to. Otherwise, everything else I did was a whatever. I had no real interest in it, it came and went.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.