Quotes About Perseverance

I studied and grew as a man so that the situation of being wrongly accused wouldn't define me.

I wasn't the greatest at school, so I studied basketball.

I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.

If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.

I had a lot of pity for myself. But I could concentrate more on my studies as a result.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed.

I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

My studies and my journey to succeed in the glamour world will go simultaneously.

It's not easy to juggle between studies and sports but yes, if you are clear about your goals and have passion, you can definitely succeed.

Nothing can come in the way of my studies. That's top priority.

My family had seen that I was not putting enough heart and soul into studies. I started failing too, but they were sure that I will eventually end up doing a job.

When I was growing up they didn't want me to do it because my mother was a teacher - they wanted me to go to school. But I love football and wanted to play - they wanted to stop me but couldn't. They wouldn't allow me to play out after school but I went out anyway. Maybe I lost a bit of focus on my studies.

After winning the Miss India title at the age of 16, I resumed my studies.

In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you're constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that's a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion.

I always think my job is like any other job. Every job has good and bad parts, and mine is to be a musician. I know why I started making music and I always knew there was no plan B. I'm passionate about it. I love being in the recording studio and researching sounds with the possibility of discovering something new. That motivates me.

I won't miss Monday morning rehearsals in a freezing studio at 8 A.M. I will happily never do that again.

I'm big on the studio. I like to stay in it 24/7.

I'm a studio rat.

I spent two years day and night in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.