Quotes About Persistence

I am very hard-working, I try not to give up, and I am disciplined about the hours I work.

You constantly have to grind, work harder than anyone else.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

As a Black woman you do have to work harder for everything. The world is not going to hand you things.

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.

I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm going to be an actress.' But you're involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.

What's really hard is when you're having those more difficult days, you've got to be able to dig down deep and be able to go out there and do what it takes to be the best you can be, even on the hardest days.

I knew all these people had the same goals I did, but the one that worked the hardest would come out on top. That's what drove me all the time. But I had fun. I did better every day, and that's what made it fun.

My maxim is that no one's ever made it. I haven't and that's why I work my hardest.

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

'One With You' was the hardest book I have ever written. I rewrote it three times.

Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.

I would say that the first 'X-Men' was the hardest. It took us a long time to get it going.

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

The hardest part sometimes is when you don't get the reps and you continue to push yourself to learn and understand what's really going on.

Longevity of focus, I think, is the hardest part. You know it's to have a vision and then try to hold that vision and not have it change.

I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the job. You can go to work. You learn your lines. You learn your character. With auditioning, you can have five in a week with different people.

The hardest part is finding that time to actually develop your game and get in practice. Literally going week in and week out playing with what you've got a lot of the time.

Sometimes the hardest part of the stage is right at the beginning. The other teams will leave it to us to chase down a breakaway, and we can't allow a big group to go up the road - anything more than four riders is trouble.