Quotes About Persistence

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

I've got to perfect my game. Keep working.

Never stop working. Never stop, never get satisfied.

Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.

I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.

We never stop working and learning.

I've been working very hard off-off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway and doing little films and really sweating my butt off in tiny little black boxes.

Stevie Wonder, he gave me some good advice. Tell me to keep working.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

I did, of course, eventually find my way into television, taking all kinds of jobs, climbing the ranks rung by rung. Anyway, it was several years later, when I was working nationally in Hollywood as the announcer and second banana on ABC-TV's late-night entry, 'The Joey Bishop Show,' that I had my big moment.

I'll never be able to stop working or playing darts.

I'll keep working and keep going. I don't set too many targets, I'll just keep going.

Before 'Lost Boy,' I was singing, doing six-second covers on Vine, working part-time and in school, but music was always my true love.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

I consider myself a fortunate working actor, but I really work at it all the time. If I have a couple of weeks off, I'm taking class. You never stop. I started when I was 10 years old in Cleveland, and I've never stopped working my butt off.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.