Quotes About Perseverance

In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.

I was on a path. I was going to become a principal dancer. I never let my mind rest.

When I got the deal to do 'J. Edgar,' which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, 'Milk' hadn't come out yet. We had just completed principal photography, and it was still basically this little film where we just really hoped someone would see it.

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.

As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

I've been pretty broke my entire life. I'm not going to live that same life, but I'm going to keep those same principles.

I love fighting. I want to fight, but there are principles in this game. You've got to have morals. I'm not just going to fight fights to fight to get nowhere.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

I started small with commercials and print.

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

I remember giving auditions for ad films and I used to wait for hours for my turn to come. I used to go for print shoots for Rs 2000. I used to go to the director's office with my portfolio and the receptionists used to tell me to put it in the post box outside.

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents.