Quotes About Perseverance

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

Yeah, I think everybody goes through periods, especially in college, where the homework is really piling up and then you have several more weeks of school left and you think that you'll never be able to get through all the homework problems that you have to do or read all the books or write all the papers that you have to write.

I have big problems with the left side of my body. I'm taking pills so I can play. I take five pills before every game.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

I'm rubbish at maths but I would like to have been a pilot.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut, then a fighter pilot, and then later, as I grew up, I was focused on scoring high marks so that I could do an MBA in marketing.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.

I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.

One of my best friends was the first U.K. female fighter pilot.

I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.

I went for officer training to be a fighter pilot, but never got past the aptitude test. So I decided to put on makeup and ponce about in front of a camera.

I did the 'Gunsmoke' pilot for $250. We were all so hungry, we would have done anything.

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

I've done, like, eight pilots, and every time, everyone thinks it's going to go for 10 years.

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.

I've done so many pilots I thought were good that didn't work, and so many that I thought were bad that did work.

The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.