Quotes About Persistence

Time and pains will do anything.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

This time it will be a long one.

Hopefully, the 27th time's the charm!

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.