Gail Collins Quotes

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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.

To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.

The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good.

Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

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.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserves success. I have the drive to work. Maybe that's why I've stayed on the fringe.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Plodding wins the race.

I've learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Genius is patience.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.