Quotes About Perseverance

I know how I feel about my music and how passionate I am. I'm not a fly-by-night dude.

At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.

I didn't leave TV for films; I left it due to health issues. I wasn't keeping well, and I was losing weight due to the long working hours.

I have cleared the eyeball test and still haven't gotten my just due. That drives me to become more and more successful because of the lack of everything they have been giving me.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

I paid my dues; I certainly did.

To be the top guy throughout my life and my career, to have people coming at me every game, giving me their best shot - that's part of the reason I went to Duke. I love that stuff.

They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.

I was a dummy in school.

I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

Be durable. Play every game. That's a lot that goes into that.

I really want to complete films in a shorter duration, but somehow it does not seem to happen.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

I can't dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all - it will hold me back.

I get a little tired of people telling me what might have been. I think I've done OK. I don't dwell on what might have been.

I'm not dying until I do.

Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.