Quotes About Perseverance

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

I was an expert skier who set his sights on going to the 1988 Olympics in Canada to represent Britain, and went from novice ramps to the 120-metre jump in five months. That's possible only with utter focus.

When people start talking to me about slow play and how I'm killing the game, I'm doing this and that to the game, that is complete and utter you-know-what.

Trust me: Every entrepreneur has felt like an utter loser at some point.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.

I am utterly ambitious. I'm ambitious for the sake of being so, too.

From the age of 6 to 33, I was utterly driven and single-minded.

As long as I am capable of working, and can learn lines and move around, I will carry on. I'd be utterly bored if I stopped.

There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.

I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.

For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very expensive hobby, you know?

Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

My great grandfather emigrated from Italy, and my grandfather worked in a steel mill and was able to raise kids and have a family and go on vacation.

I've taken just 12 vacation days in 18 years.

In 1991, I didn't have $2,000 to go on vacation.

Even when I was on vacation after the Olympia, I was looking for gym to train in. Not only was it 24 hours a day, it was 365 days a year. That may have been a little too extreme, but that is what got me there from that little backstreet gym in England to becoming Mr. Olympia.

I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jackhammer.

People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. That does something to somebody. These suspensions are the only vacations I've ever had.

I am opposed to vacations and leisure. I try to make every day a work day. Even if there's nothing on my schedule, I will try do at least one task that is work-related.