Quotes About Persistence

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it.

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Time is my greatest enemy.

I still follow that model: just go hard every day, and take it one step at a time.

I feel I shall live a long time.

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

If you have a heartbeat, there's still time for your dreams.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.