Quotes About Perseverance

You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'

This is NOT a pretty good business. You cannot be pretty good and be a national headliner. That becomes the allure.

It's very good to know when you're being lapped on the racetrack, 'cause you've got to put your foot down on the pedal and get going.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

You can go from having all your stuff together and really feeling good about yourself to really figuring you can't run a lick.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?

Me and Spike Lee are good friends. I got a lot of respect for Spike just because of who he is, what he stands for, and the support for that organization. Even when it was bad he was there.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

Keep sharing the good news; we have not yet exhausted the number of God's elect.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

Good intentions are not enough; commitment and sacrifice are necessary.

I'm working my way steadily back and I'm feeling good.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.