Quotes About Persistence

It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business.

When I started making movies, they tried to change my name, but I had already made a name for myself in a couple of Broadway productions and in television, so I wouldn't change it.

Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?

We can do things and not be the best. Maybe you were late to work but by god at least you got to work. You may not have the most productive day but well bloody done for getting out from under the duvet.

Be productive, but be productive consistently.

Something I've always prided myself on is not only can you be highly productive, but can you be highly productive continuously.

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Both productivity and all things considered, there's nobody that's been more productive or more consistent than I have. And I'll stand on that until the cows come home.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

In any profession, you can't reach the top without loving what you do.

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave.

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

For me, this profession is about having a career where you can go on working for 60 years, so I'm not particularly bothered by things to do with fame; I like to think that I just do what I do.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

Bubbles only break for a few different reasons, so if I can avoid those things, I can get a lot of things to happen.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.