Quotes About Persistence

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.

If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.

Our first No. 1 was 'Why' and we waited two years to have another one. It felt like forever, and now I feel like I'm celebrating one every few months, which I love.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.

I waited a long time to get a break with Indrajit's Huduga Hudugi.'

I always kept my nose to the grindstone and I always waited for my opportunity patiently. That's what I feel you have to do in WWE to succeed.

Personally, I've always felt that I've enjoyed my work. But there have been times where I've have waited for interesting work to come my way.

If you are really passionate about something you can even wait for 10 years. Look at Nawazuddin Siddiqui for instance. He waited for 20 years!

I waited for seven years for something like 'The Empire.'

I didn't start making a real living until eight or nine years in. Even after 'Goodfellas' came out, I was still working as a waiter, and people would recognize me - that was an odd experience. But when 'The Sopranos' hit, that was like an exponential leap.

I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

I'm a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

Life is difficult, and if you sit around waiting for fun to show up, you'll find yourself going without it more often than not.