Quotes About Persistence

We're always wanting to get better. I'm very much a perfectionist.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.

I am a perfectionist. It has always been this way.

With Dr. Dre, he's a perfectionist. A lot of people ask why 'Detox' is taking so long. It's because Dre is somebody that is trying to top what he's done. Will he do it? I don't know if he ever will, but I respect that he's trying to do so. You have to wait for a masterpiece.

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

I'm a perfectionist - but as someone once said, 'What else is there to be?'

I'm a perfectionist. You have to perform at your best.

For its part, one of the keys of Tottenham is that it has players who know each other very well for two or three years. They have not made changes and are managed by the same coach, Mauricio Pochettino. Therefore, they perfectly apply the idea of team and style of play.

We do not do everything perfectly, but the intentions are there.

I know perfectly well that in football, you have good times, and you have bad times.

My greatest high was to hit a ball well, to try to do it perfectly, to try different things, whether they came off or not.

I've always tried to live my life perfectly.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

When you continue to perform, your confidence level increases dramatically.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

I need to maintain my performance levels high for many seasons. I hope I can do that.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

You're not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh - to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.

I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

You have to learn how to sing from your diaphragm, and you don't become a great performer overnight. It takes a while. The more you do it, the better you are.

When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.

Every performer will have a bad night. It's just inevitable.