Quotes About Persistence

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

1]The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. 2]But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. 3]We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

To follow, without halt, one aim There's the secret of success.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

Und wenn er auch nur noch die Kraft für eine einzige winzig kleine Bewegung hatte, auf die Freiheit hin, wie sinnlos und nutzlos diese Bewegung auch sein mochte, er wollte diese Bewegung doch noch gemacht haben.

Wenn ein noch so winziger Streich gelang gegen die Allmacht des Feindes, dann war schon alles gelungen.

Even if he had only enough strength left to take one tiny step toward freedom, no matter how ridiculous and useless the step might be, he was going to take it.

Your only problem is that you can't put up with things. But there are certain things you just have to put up with, to endure. Because eventually they'll pass.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.' Amelia Earhart

Rosie knew that she could promise no more than what she had, but she resolved there and then that if she did nothing else in her life, she would find out what had happened to that baby and where she was now.

Life goes on. The rules were this: you might sit for a time on the sidelines feeling overwhelmed and paralysed by it all. But sooner or later you picked yourself up and got on with it, or you were left behind.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

often. I did

If you try to quit I will eat you!

Wait! I'm the one who's supposed to chase!

Insidious bastard," she whispered. "I don't know how you gave me that gut-jab of fear, but I won't forget you can use my own heart against me. I won't give up the landscapes in my care. Not even this one. And I won't let you have any of them. I'll find a way to do alone what it took hundreds like me to do the last time. And by the time I'm finished, I will lock you in a landscape even *you* will find unbearable.

Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps—the shop for paper, printing, and postage—went on as they had before.

If what Picasso proposed is true, that the first stroke on the canvas is always a mistake, it is best to get on with the mistake, without delay, earlier rather than later. Write one sentence, make one choice or point at something and say "Yes." And then, as the process unfolds, and as long as I keep at it and stay attentive and resolute, making adjustments to each mistake, things eventually fall into place.

Deep practice is slow, demanding and uncomfortable. To practice deeply is to live deliberately in a space that is uncomfortable but with the encouraging sense that progress can happen.

It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.