Quotes About Perseverance

When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.

There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.

When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The stuff that interests me is the work.

I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

Your game stalls when you assume you're the finished product.

Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

I can make something for a long time and just not come up with an ending. It's finishing things that I don't enjoy.

While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'

I've always believed in finishing where you started. I think there's a lot to be said with that.

Things not always go the best way, also when it comes to finishing, but only those who play miss chances.

I work on my finishing every day in training.