Quotes About Perseverance

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

All the projects that I am part of get delayed for reasons beyond my control!

Delays can't mar a film.

When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.

In training, the players would deliberately hit high balls into me and barge into me so I'd get used to that side of the English game. I actually enjoy the physical side of it now.

I feel I've been deliberately sidelined by the mainstream filmmakers, but I don't let that bother me. If I start thinking about that, I'll lose focus on what I need to do and have to do.

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

I am probably the only composer in South India who has delivered many superhit songs but was not considered a success.

The last time I played basketball it was eight weeks after I delivered my second child. You know that expression - the mind believes and the body would not follow? That was me on that particular day.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.

You have to be delusional to get into this business, you know?

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.

I really do think (and likely I'm a bit delusional) that if I still had time, with the drive and love for the game that I have now, I could've maybe made a legitimate run at the NHL - or at least that's what I tell myself.

My wife says I have happy delusions. I'm delusional that way. I just say, 'This is how it's got to be, and it's got to be.' I don't take no. I just don't like no. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. That's just how I am.

Demand excellence.

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

If you demand the best, sometimes you get it.

I demand of myself that I take part and work hard in training to ensure I'm in the starting line-up and help the team.

The first four years of my career, I never complained. I never demanded. I never said anything about money.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.