Quotes About Persistence

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

I'd never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.

Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.

I'm making and marketing my films, by any means necessary, and enjoying life while I do so.

I was of the "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn't give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff" school of thought.

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

I never let the worst things in life get the best of me. So take these testes and, ummm...open sesame.