Quotes About Persistence

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I've been lucky enough to play over 100 Test matches for Australia.

You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game.

Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.

If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again.

I've worked countless jobs from waiting tables to packing boxes in a paper factory - a testament that I hustled on and never gave up til I reached my dreams.

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.

I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

In between shooting for 'Awake,' I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for 'Anger Management' actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we weren't really letting any other shows into the mix.

Before 'New Girl,' I had just been grinding in TV for a really long time. I had been testing for so many shows and not getting them. You don't know how difficult it is or how lucky you have to be - and I only say lucky because there are so many people out there - to get a show on the air and keep it going.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.

If you have knocked over a batsman once - fine, it happens. Twice, OK. But more than that in the space of a few Tests then there is definitely something to work with.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

I would travel by train and then would take an auto-rickshaw to travel for auditions and look tests.

We'll get him!" said Jongor grimly. "Move, my little cabbage, move!

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

At the end of them, you'll either be a damned good shot or you'll be walking with my boot wedged permanently in your butthole.

The world's enduring lesson is that opportunities must be seized. Fail to act with resolution, and you are lost. All your dreams turn to dust.

Here is a world without joy and without hope. But it does not frighten me because I do not believe it.

Confidence is like going after Moby Dick with a rowboat, a harpoon and a jar of tartar sauce.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.