Quotes About Persistence

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

You are not dead until you are in that grave, so don't close the book. Don't give up.

In this industry, you're trying to make something of yourself, trying to build something, you want to do a good job - so I did every job under the sun, I did the graveyard shifts.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

A great idea is not enough.

You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

I'm biased, but I see people who have great ideas and are working on things that could be successful, but they give up.

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

You know, that's kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.

It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

The great thing about Marvel is that there is an attitude of 'nothing's impossible,' but that doesn't mean everything is possible; you just have to chase it.

The great thing about 'Breaking Bad' was they were able to write themselves out of anything.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.

When we do things that are really hard, we can achieve great things - and that has worked as a great model for me.