Quotes About Persistence

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

Out of Gas. I haven't heard that one in a long time.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

Stage time, stage time, stage time.

The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the next.

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.

There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.' 'Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs.

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.