Quotes About Persistence

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

Not just when its easy. All the time.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up.

People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.

Every time I do it at least proves I can still do it.

There is no time to fail.

There's always world enough and time.

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.

There's no set time or schedule for developing one's skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn't come overnight. It's a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.