Jonathan Nolan Quotes

The most important thing is to understand that this career is not about speed. It's about stamina. This is a marathon. It's not a 50-meter sprint. You have to persevere and understand it takes a lot of time. You have to know you're going to knock on 100 doors and 99 of them are going to close in your face.

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

It's hard and continuous dedication that brings lasting results.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.

I'm sure you've felt this way along the way: Yes, I got to do what I wanted to do. But it was much harder than I thought it was going to be, and it continues to be. You never get to a place that is a place of rest. I think that's OK. It's not bad - life is hard work!

In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.

Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.