Quotes About Persistence

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid, but to stay there is the hardest part.

It wasn't easy at all for a qualified engineer to take the decision of giving it up, leave Punjab and try to make a name in films. But I really wanted to be an actor, hence I took the decision.

I have fought back. From not being allowed to play, I have now qualified for Olympics in two events, it is satisfying. I feel proud.

In any business that you pursue, if you belong at the top, and you're perceived as having that caliber, and you do qualify, then it's something that you want to hold on to.

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

We live in a culture that celebrates determination and hard work, but understand, these are the qualities that keep you in the game after most everybody else has left - or until somebody bigger and stronger picks you up and hurls you back out to sea.

If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.

Everybody wants to own quality, but quality takes time, and it takes money.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.

Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.

I have said no so much that eventually work stopped coming to me, but I never stress on quantity. For me, quality matters.

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.

More than a quarter of a century into the band's career together, it's inspiring to hear Melvins continue to deafen new generations of listeners.

If the run game's not working, you'll most likely succeed in the pass game, and even if there's a game where the run game and the pass game's not working, you've got to find a way to continue to win. You can't get too caught up in one play. You can't get too caught up one quarter or one drive.