Quotes About Persistence

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

I was always in the gym. People would look at me crazy because I spent so much time there. But that's what it was about. I'm glad I did it.

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

Time kept on and on like the cheapest toilet paper.

One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.