Quotes about Persistence

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

There is a part of me that's oblivious. People always ask me, 'What obstacles have you faced?' and I always think, 'What are you talking about?' Whether or not there were obstacles, I never saw obstacles. It's never occurred to me that I wasn't good enough for something.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Only those who never step, never stumble.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.