Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist.

I'm pretty stubborn.

In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined.

I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.

Any window of opportunity is important. If your hands are tied, you should swim with your legs. If your legs are tied, you should try to hold on to the edge of the boat with your teeth. We have to use every option.

We must be relentless and resilient.

You can put me in a cage, on a ladder, in any kind of match, and I will persevere. I will find a way.

I'm very dogged and patient.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

There was a time in my life when opportunities were so few and far between they were like little cracks in the wall, and if one opportunity came my way, I would scratch and claw and bite and I would do anything I could to make sure that I grabbed that opportunity by the throat and I did not let it go.

It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just write on and the end comes naturally.