Quotes About Persistence

When it started, 'Bake Off' wasn't a big hit. Respect to the people who said, 'We'll keep commissioning this and give it a chance.'

Starting really hasn't been a big thing for me. I always want to be able to finish a game or play at the end.

If you just trust the process, that's the big thing.

If you want to do big things, it's never easy.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

The NBA is the biggest dream of basketball players, and I'm no different.

I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.

It is a big deal just to keep on your path. That is the biggest thing. Luckily, we are dreamers and we believe that whatever we are thinking, we are going to bring about in our life, kind of like 'The Secret.'

The biggest thing is to keep getting up.

You're never going to lose your sport. It's like riding a bike to be honest.

If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.

My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another.

I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.

I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.

I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.

Of course I'm blessed. Super, super blessed. I also believe that you don't get nothing that you don't go for. Even with your blessings, you still gotta go do it.

We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don't know it's possible because it's not often in front of you.

A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be like, 'I'm here.' You have to stay confident and positive that you're going to write something.

I think nobody can block me. Nobody can stop me.

I feel like, I go out and play hard every day and I'm going to practice every day, I'm going to block shots.

I'm not going to make every shot. I'm not going to get every block. I can't let one play affect me the next two or three times down the court.