Quotes About Perseverance

I am trying to build the biggest callus possible on my first finger so I can do one-finger bends and vibrato like B.B. King.

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.

Every climb is different. The Dawn Wall was so dry and aggressive that my fingers would dry out to the point where they would crack. So I actually had to add as much moisture as possible.

It's football - I would play with seven fingers if I had too, man.

I've had broken fingers and still played for Team Canada.

My mom told me that she dislocated her fingers three times. And my dad: four times.

You don't get to a Champions League final by clicking your fingers.

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

Winning my first UFC fight by a finish, I've never felt so accomplished in my life.

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

If I start something, I have to finish it. I know that's annoying - it drives my husband mad - but even if something's not going my way, I have to see it through.

I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.

I'm a one-track mind: Once I start something, I have to finish it.

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

When you go to a shooting competition, you don't know what medal you're going to finish with.

Sometimes you've got to be able to finish at the rim.

I will try to do everything to finish the fight earlier as I can. No more, no more.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

Eventually, I want to finish my degree.