Quotes About Perseverance

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end.

You finish the damn match, point blank, period. That's it, and I always finish, even if I'm finishing on my back.

There's always room for growth. I feel like I'll never get to the point where I'm 100 percent happy with where I am with my career.

There is no point in being lazy.

I've never seen a low point. I like to believe that they don't exist.

You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

Most people don't know I like to block shots. I'm going to be a big point guard out there. So just come in and prove myself. Just show why I belong on this stage.

I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be 'up'.

From a personal point of view, I wouldn't have been happy with one cap but would always have been happy with two. I never counted on getting to 80.

Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you've got to put the hours in.

I could have become a distraction, pointed fingers, complained, or I could have just worked hard and been prepared, knowing I'm one play from getting in. And that's the road I've taken.

When I first came to Chelsea, I couldn't kick the ball, and it was pointless, me playing, really. But I tried to play through the pain for the manager who bought me.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

As a player, you look where I've come from, averaging 'X' amount of points, to where I am now, an All-Star.

I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is.

From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points.

I lost a lot of judo matches because of points fighters. It was extremely frustrating for me.