Quotes About Perseverance

I guess that is what I remember of 'Mezzanine': it was a proper struggle.

Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job.

It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.

The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable.

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

This Martina Navratilova is a real champion, but with the proper training, I can make miracles happen.

I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit.

Anybody that got in your way or stopped you or barred your success, you either push through them or work around them. I don't have enough time for excuses or crying about people saying how someone wasn't given a proper opportunity. Nobody gave me an opportunity.

It is not easy to participate in the 21 km. marathon. It takes a lot of energy, determination, and will power. It takes months to train to reach that mark with a proper diet chart.

It's hard work if you want a proper and a lasting career.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It's not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it's about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Any time you experience adversity, whether you lose a game or maybe have an official who makes a poor call that costs you the game, you've gotta handle yourself properly. Just like in life, not everything will go your way.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

When I was little, my oesophagus was too small, so I had to get it operated on to help me eat properly.

During 'Bullets Over Broadway,' there was a part where we performed the 'play within the play' facing upstage. It was me, Karen Ziemba, Brooks Ashmanskas, and Marin Mazzie. I don't think we got through it properly a single time.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

There was a time when I was not able to speak properly because of my medical condition. But I managed to fight against all those odds.

When I was 18 or 19, I started writing raps properly.

To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.