Quotes About Persistence

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

So I immediately joined Sutton College of Music in Grove Road, Sutton to thoroughly learn theory of music. Over and over again, I would copy all the major and minor scales until I was blue in the face. It wasn't easy because it was so boring but I knew it was absolutely essential to have this

If there be the truth of grace, there will be an endeavor after the strength of grace.

Sometimes the best solution to a problem is active waiting. There is wisdom in allowing events to unfold in their own time.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely...

and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now...

I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us...

I once tried to approach Akiro Kurosawa, but he never answered.

John Gilstrap

Never give up hope, because miracles do happen.

Anyone who knows anything knows that almost nothing ever ends, and when it does, it rarely ever does so well.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

Creative geniuses are: 1.  Comfortable with uncertainty 2.  Able to hold seeming opposites or paradoxes 3.  Persistent

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.