Quotes About Persistence

My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust.

Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.