Quotes About Persistence

Regardless of how I feel, I always push through all of my workouts before I get ready for the game, because even though I might not like it then, even though I might be a little tired or fatigued, in the long run, it pays off.

I was not going to be distracted by anything - a fight with my wife, a bump in the car, whatever it may be. I refused to let anything interfere with my workouts.

I just go in, go do my workouts, go as hard as I can and let the chips fall where they may.

Every day is a new day, and ultimately, I have to figure out what works each day.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

Self-belief is the key to success and that has helped me. So I will put in all my efforts in the manner I know. If it works, it is great and if it doesn't it's still great as I know I have put in all my effort.

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.

We were always reminded by our teachers that careers take off at different times. They held up Arthur Lowe as a great example of an actor who works for years and then suddenly he gets a part and everybody knows him.

Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and now.

Hard work works.

I think I'm a kind of a person who works hard at whatever I do, literally from being a waitress to being on television. I always try to give 110 percent to whatever it is I'm doing.

The fact of the matter is, if music is something that you want to do, you need to stick with it with the idea that you're going to do it until it works.

I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

We're not just up here keeping our fingers crossed hoping that things turn out how they should. That's not how life works. If you want something, then you've got to believe it and you've got to feel it in your heart. But you got to work for it.

When a team starts to win, the confidence filters down through the roster. Everyone gets pumped up about the success. Everyone works harder. Everyone wants to be part of the glory.