Quotes About Persistence

Gatsby creía en la luz verde, el futuro orgiástico que año tras año retrocede ante nosotros. Se nos escapa ahora, pero no importa, mañana correremos más, alargaremos

Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

Any criticism at all which depresses you to the extent that you feel you cannot ever write anything worth anything is from the Devil and to subject yourself to it is for you an occasion of sin. In you the talent is there and you are expected to use it. Whether the work itself is completely successful, or whether you ever get any worldly success out of it, is a matter of no concern to you. It is like the Japanese swordsmen who are indifferent to getting slain in the duel.

You remain what you are. - Everything That Rises Must Converge

what you call my struggle to submit, which is not a struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy – – fully armed too as it's a highly dangerous quest

Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n'y a de continuellement bon que l'habitude d'un travail entêté. Il s'en dégage un opium qui engourdit l'âme… Read and do not dream. The only thing that is continually good is the habit of stubborn work. It emits an opium that numbs the soul…

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

No dream is far away.

People laughed at him and said, 'you'll never be famous, your name is too hard.' But everybody knows who Arnold Schwarzengger is. I'm far, far away from where he is.

At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'

I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

You know me, I go higher, faster, larger, as long as I can.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

I just try to compete. That's all. There's gonna be faster guys, stronger guys, but you just gotta give effort.

The faster you try to move in the water, the faster you'll move when you're out of the water.

I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

I'm not the fastest guy.

I want to prove that a fat guy can get to 100 still working.

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.