Quotes About Persistence

I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even.

I tend to write two stories every day, five days a week. It's a real grind. But it also allows me to really try to have my finger on the pulse of injustice in America.

Now, I'm not positive 24 hours a day. I have my grieving moments. But when I go to a school to speak to a bunch of kids, I get pumped up.

It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.

You can sit there and punch me in the head for three minutes straight, but I'm gonna figure it out. I always do. I just know that about myself.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

I'm not always the guy getting knocked down a whole lot. My body probably hasn't been punished as much as the other guys have been. I think it's because I show up every day, and I try to do my best - give everything I have.

Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.

What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.

I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

I worked flipping cheeseburgers and Big Mac's at McDonald's, purchased a microphone, and cleared all the stuff out of my basement and started making music.

The difficulties people have with me are purely musical things, never personality things. But, you know that's just the way it goes. I like to get things right!

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I can't move on until I feel like it's presentable.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

Things aren't gifted to you. Things don't just come from an idea, from nothing. You have to work for them. You have to pursue them. You have to take time. You have to sacrifice.

Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.

To pursue anything, you've got to have fun with it and to just never give up on it.

I left my cushy job as an engineer in New Delhi in 2008 to pursue acting in Mumbai. I figured roles will start pouring in as soon as I landed in the city, but my bubble burst quickly.

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

No creator in modern times is going to stick around with a concept for 20 years. There are simply too many alternatives that writers want to pursue.

As long as Wanxiang exists, we will pursue our dream to make electric cars, whatever the obstacles.

My period days didn't make me falter: they made me more determined to pursue my dreams.

No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.