Quotes About Persistence

I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.

Give yourself ten years of failing with a smile on your face. If, after ten years, you still have the passion, you're heading to success!

I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an inch. It's slow going, man.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

It was a long, circuitous route from my mom's real estate business to Netflix. It didn't happen overnight. Or in a year. Or even in ten years. But it happened.

I've always said I got to where I am not by being a great singer, but by being stubborn, by being tenacious, by being pigheaded.

You have got to be maniacal and relentless - relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth.

We got a thumbs-down from every label. But you gotta keep the faith, man. You gotta hang in there and be tenacious.

If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

I was always tenacious.

I've taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life.

I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.'

I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn't encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or stupidity - I'm not sure which.

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.