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Quotes About Perseverance

I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.
~ Charlie Cox
Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.
~ Alfred Hershey
You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
AMD's history is we've always had great technology. We've had periods of time where we've done really, really well, and we've had periods of time where we've done not so well. But most of the time we've done well, it's because we've had a leadership product or some technology where we were out in front before anybody else.
~ Lisa Su
Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.
~ Art Bell
We want to show the world that even if you go through some bad periods, you always have to think positive just to go forward.
~ Edin Dzeko
When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
~ Cynthia Weil
I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.
~ Kristen Wiig
Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.
~ Roman Coppola
More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.
~ Jonathan Dee
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
~ Leo Ornstein
All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.
~ Ryan Giggs
It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.
~ Neil Jackson
I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.
~ Jenny Lewis
That's how you win these battles over long periods of time. You continue to fight. You continue to bring it up. You continue to message it to your constituents and to America in general.
~ John Fleming
I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
~ Nancy Pickard
There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
~ Parker Posey
I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.
~ Ben Domenech
Cricket keeps me away from classes, and home, for long periods at a time. But talking to friends and family helps, it is a sacrifice I have to make, because I love cricket.
~ Stuart Binny
In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.
~ Luke Shaw
Coming to YG entertainment as a trainee was one of the most challenging yet most life changing periods of my life.
~ Rose
You don't get many periods in your life when it all goes your way.
~ Jim Kerr