Quotes About Persistence

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

All things in the fulness of time

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

Just recognize that you are not going to become a comfortable public speaker overnight. It can take a long time.

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

I'm just another player that comes in and comes out. Everybody's time is up at some point, I don't think that's my problem. I'm just going to keep on trying like I normally do.

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. I'm taking it one game at a time.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

Only time conquers time and its burdens.