Quotes About Perseverance

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we're going to whine or do the work.

Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right.

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

Lean into the discomfort of the work.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.