Quotes About Persistence

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Rodgers & Hart had a few flops before they clicked. You know, it happens. I don't know anyone who always gets away with everything.

After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.

Saying, 'I'm going to hang up my hat today, and I'm retiring,' it's not a concept for me, and it never has been. I figure, when I'm 81, I'll play 81-year-old parts, hopefully.

When I was in college and high school so I had it in my head that I can coach high school wrestling. Honestly, wrestling was my end all and be all, I had all my chips in that hat, that was it for me.

You can accomplish whatever you want to. You just got to throw your hat in the ring. You've got to get out there and do it.

When 'Wherever I Lay My Hat' went to number one in 1983, I was still driving a green Viva HC that my dad had given me. People would see me drive past and say, 'It can't be him,' but you don't get any money until about six months after a record is a hit.

I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

Whenever a hater said they hated something about Miranda, I'd do it more.

I always hated acting but I kept on acting.

You're going to have haters no matter what you do.

I deal with haters on a daily basis.

No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.

I don't let the haters get their way.

I got a lot of hate mail, and that's where the term 'haters back off' came from because I got all this hate.

The fact is I'm always going to have naysayers. You're always going to have haters. It really doesn't bother me because I just rise above it.

A lot of haters been downing me but I never gave up and that's what the fans love.

I'm the type of guy that hates to get out of practice.