Quotes About Persistence

You hit road blocks in life, but I'm living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn't going to happen. My daughter's mom thought it wasn't going to happen, and a couple of girlfriends. You just gotta keep on doing it. I'm living proof.

If you believe in something and have the strength not to give up, it can happen. I am the living proof it can be done.

My career's been a bumpy road, but at the same time I think I am living proof that if you put enough work into things you decide more or less where you want to end up.

If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

Anybody that got in your way or stopped you or barred your success, you either push through them or work around them. I don't have enough time for excuses or crying about people saying how someone wasn't given a proper opportunity. Nobody gave me an opportunity.

It's hard work if you want a proper and a lasting career.

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

I take time with my films and I want to work on every script properly before I move on to something else.

I have only prepared properly for the World Championship three or four times in my life. If I had gone about it professionally I would have won the title 10 times.

Bill Clinton had to propose to Hillary Rodham several times before she agreed to marry him and move to Arkansas.

A fan proposed to me several times.

Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

If you wrote a crummy line or maybe didn't sing to the best of your ability, there's layers of 10 different instruments all working to convey something. In writing prose for the memoir, if it's not working, it's just not working. It's harder to figure out how to fix it.

What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.

I had to look for food all the time. I had to catch dragonflies, grasshoppers, and that was the only source of protein for me.

When I started engineering proteins I didn't know how hard it would be.

Politicians and lawmakers are willing to watch us take us a knee, watch us march, watch us picket and protest - and wait us out. They are willing and prepared to outlast us - and, in most cases, to do absolutely nothing about the problems we highlight and amplify.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

I decided I'm gonna make my living from this, or I'm not doing it. The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it.