Quotes About Perseverance

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.

There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

I've always been huge into martial arts.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

I'd always done martial arts I was always interested in fighting.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.