Quotes About Persistence

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

You have to wade through tons of 'no's' to get one 'yes,' and you can't let it go to your head when you get that yes.

You look at someone like Neil Wagner - he's got a big heart, a big engine, and keeps running. And that's what you want, you want guys who, time and time again, want to be putting themselves in that position, to keep wanting to create chances and keep trying to change the game.

With these big Wagner pieces, if I haven't started three years before, I'm screwed. You need time to look at the piece again and again and again, and then, like some fantastic casserole or spaghetti sauce, put it back in the fridge and let the flavours get together.

We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.

The key is that you never check the championship. You always carry it on. So when you're going through TSA, it's always a treat because, for some reason, they always like to pull it out and hold it way above their head and throw it over their shoulder and put it across their waist, see what it looks like on them.

I want to become undisputed UFC welterweight champion. I've been so close a couple of times, but I don't want to leave the sport always a bridesmaid and never a bride. I want to get that belt around my waist.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.

You can't hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise.

Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a point that - if I'm going to put the energy into doing this work - I will wait until I find something I'm really happy with.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.