Quotes About Perseverance

I've always put myself intensely into my work.

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

Your business needs a raison d'être. Be prepared to work 24 hours a day, and be willing to take risks. And you have to love it or you won't succeed.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I'm not a gentle pony... I promise you, you will have to work to keep your seat.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

You work for whatever you get in life.