My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty...

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo...

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

"{Gina} I got them Bad Old Cosmic C - Word Blues Again.{Mark} What does 'c - word' mean?{Gina} It means continuing to believe even when you don't feel it. Not letting go even when you can't find squat...

Until they rip us apart, and even then, I'll fight.

We love to quote the saying "Rome was not built in a day" but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that...

The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks.

They say Night is all black in the face All that glitters only adds to the grace No attempt to success ever succeeds Without one slogging through the blackened days

The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.

When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.

Use everything you have to become what they said you couldn't

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do.

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which it causes us, now to confront unjust power,...

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Do not pay attention to those who are trying to stop or hinder you

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

And maybe there is greatness waiting for you - if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.

Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn

Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be discovered by seeking.

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and...

She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started,...

Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.