Quotes About Persistence

I don't want easy success. It's boring.

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

Earlier, every time I wouldn't get a roll, I would always take it in my head, and let it under my skin. And I would always get bothered with it.

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

No one bought my screenplays.

You win some, you lose some; it's all about can you bounce back.

I think if you make a mistake, it had better be early in the race so you can bounce back from it.

If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.

It's true that I have got wickets with the new ball in Test matches, but that doesn't mean that I can't bowl with the old ball.

You can sometimes bowl extremely well and get no reward.

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

I've been bowling for so long, and I really, really enjoy it.

I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.

I like boxing.

Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.

I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.

If I want to pursue something, I will go after it bravely.

It isn't easy to break into Bollywood. But that's not my goal.

That's just always the way my mind has worked, is taking something that seems impossible, or too big, and then breaking it down into these pieces so that I know how to get there.