Quotes About Persistence

I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.

I believe if you are a good performer, then nothing can stop you.

I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the company, you have to be strategically patient and tactically impatient.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that. I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.

Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.

When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.

A season is very long, and there will be periods where you'll be very good and moments where you won't be as good.

That's how you win these battles over long periods of time. You continue to fight. You continue to bring it up. You continue to message it to your constituents and to America in general.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.