Quotes About Persistence

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.

I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage.

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

I don't really like the word 'dream' because that makes it seem like it's something that's never going to happen. Playing in the NBA, since Day 1, it's something that I've wanted to do and I'm realizing all my goals now.

If you really are passionate about it, you're just going to find a way to make it happen.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

That's what people don't understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that's when you'll reap the rewards from it.

Mum and dad have worked so hard and shown me that if you work hard you will reap the benefits.

I fell in love with singing, and through singing, I learned how to write songs. Anything you're consistent with and that you do all the time, you're gonna reap benefits off it at one point. You're not gonna get worse!

My entire career proves to me that if you believe in what you're doing, you will reap the benefits.

March on. Don't look in the rearview, just the windshield.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.

At the time of his death and the few years before, I was just starting to pull myself together and make a reasonably good living after years of dismal failure. I think he would be delighted to know that I've stuck to one thing and have done it well.

When 'Firefly' was canceled, we had just a few other places to shop it to - to take it over... And all of them had reasons why they couldn't do it that time.

I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

'Rebel' is not a word I would describe for myself, but I feel like I was a total rebel being an actor. It made me feel like there was something in me, a passion, a love - and that I didn't just squelch it.

I have a rebellious nature, and being told no is almost the surest way to get me to do something.