Quotes About Persistence

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

Learn to labour and to wait.

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.

My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage.

Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

Don't give - give up!

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.