Quotes About Perseverance

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

If you train 100% the result will be 100%.

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

We are the modern day gladiators.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

Heart and mind overcome all.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.