Quotes About Perseverance

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

The lack of work destroys people.

I work whenever I'm let.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.

I love going out for any audition. I'm very professional, I study my stuff, I work on it, and even if I'm not right for the job, so what? I know I did my best.

Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own.

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

When I get into a zone, I obsess and I don't care about anything else. I have to make the work.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

You learn that you can never not work. If you really want to make it to the big leagues, there's no such thing as "I'll start this first thing Monday" - you gotta do it now.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another.

For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.

I started out old, but I have to say that I've been very lucky to work consistently since I started. I've really never been out of work.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.