Quotes About Persistence

One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I knew that that's where I belonged, and I could fix things and move things. And no matter how many classrooms I went into where I was the only girl in the physics class or whatever, I never questioned the fact that I didn't belong there.

Whenever something's really hard, you always question yourself, and I had many times when I questioned myself, but I always rose above it.

Every time my capability as an actor would be questioned, I would put in double the effort.

I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.

If you don't have patience in this profession, you almost always end up getting bent out of shape expecting quick results.

I'm a really fast runner. No one can catch me - I'm quick.

Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!

We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this for ourselves. We shouldn't be so quick to close doors.

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

You don't want to lose what you have - fast guy, quick guy - you don't want to lose that, but work around it, keep that as your bread and butter.

You get a chance to get the ball every time, you're gonna do better quicker, and you're gonna gain experience faster.

In this life, I've learned to be patient. And I'm still learning... Even now, I wish things would go quicker.

I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, 'They'll be gone tomorrow; they'll be gone quicker than they came.'

I just want to try and keep getting quicker.

I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty quickly.

There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.

Scouting and player development is the key to year-in and year-out success, not the occasional lucky hit. There are no definitive answers in this game, no shortcuts. When you think you've got it all figured out, you can get humbled very quickly.

Sometimes these challenges naturally select more chefs that can think on their feet very quickly. There are chefs I know who won't put things on the menu unless they've tried it four or five times. So you just naturally select a certain kind of chef, people who maybe don't win a bunch of challenges but they hang around.

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

I left many different mountains but always the gods gave me a chance to go back. I was always going with a quiet foot.

It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, 'I am in my office now.'

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.