Quotes About Perseverance

You find that other piece that matches yours, that completes yours, and you make the jags and the crevices fit, even if they don't go in perfectly smoothly, even if they require a few adjustments. You don't demand perfection. You make it work and appreciate the parts that fit instead of obsessing over the small angles that don't.

Whatever happens is going to happen. And when I see something bad, I won't dwell on it or get emotional about it because there's too much shit going on, and I have a job to do.

and, now, The Perfect Storm, life on The Lost had always been extremely

wondered at the human brain's ability to seize on some terrible personal event and let that event define and control every action for years, decades, even lifetimes.

Little, Brown and Company

That's my defense mechanism—do the best job I can and move on.

because after Jacobi and I got shot on Larkin

second to last.

My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle!

James Patterson

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.

I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

I wish I could never spend another second talking about cancer and all it does to everyone it surrounds, but unfortunately, that cannot be because of my life.

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better.

Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.'

Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training.

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

A lot of the people who have been on 'American Idol' have unfortunately not been very successful after the show is over. I would be one of the most successful contestants to not make it to the Top 12. So that would be a good statistic to throw into the show. It's what you make of it.