Quotes About Perseverance

After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn't sleep for five straight nights.

I gather from motivation around me - from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

Early in my career, if I didn't get the ball, or if something would happen, or the media would say something, I'd take it personally.

I know, personally, people said a lot about what kind of defender I was. So I wanted to get better at it.

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.

I don't want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.

I have been in this league for a long time, and if you are not motivated on a daily basis, you won't be in this league long - that's players, coaches, that's personnel, that's everybody.

I am one of the most attacked persons.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.

Getting onto 'Jeopardy!' was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.