Quotes About Persistence

I have never successfully made an omelette.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.

I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.

To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning.

You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.

Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore.

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

It is hard when you fall. I know that feeling. That disappointment sucks. You've just got to get up and keep moving.

I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.

When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of a sudden, I could play the blues.

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder.

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.