Quotes About Persistence

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

The thing is that I'm naturally curious about a lot of different disciplines in music, and I enjoy doing them. And as long as people are nice enough to let me, I'll keep on trying.

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

There is nothing you can tell me to discourage me.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

I would say that 98 percent of the time you are not going to get the role you are going after. I think that can be very discouraging.

I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

I think music has always been what I always wanted to do, but I didn't know how or when I was going to get discovered.

I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

I don't like rehabilitating myself. It is one of the things I dislike.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

This movie 'On the Road' with Kristen Stewart - they were trying to make that movie for 30 years. She says she wants to do it, and they can finally make it. You have so much at your disposal if you're in a successful commercial film.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.

I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.

I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live.

I want to do something that has never been done, and that's become the first two-time NXT Champion. In a sense, that's a strange distinction to want, but that has to be my goal while I'm in NXT.

Nothing can distract me.

I want to act in films and TV drama, so that's where I'm aiming to be, and I'm not going to let anything distract me or turn my head until I get there.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.