Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

I just see the opportunities and I go for them. I don't want to play my career safe. I've had my successes and I've had a few failures, too. But you just keep going and do the best that you can. That's what I've learned.

You just have to be persistent. I think that's one of the biggest things about the model industry and this career is being persistent and believing in yourself and also being ready when the timing is right. So much of it is about timing and luck, so to be ready when you get the opportunity.

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

I'm a great believer that if you knock on enough doors and stay at the level maybe an opportunity comes.

Take risks. Never say die. It has worked for me.

You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.

Once the opportunities knock on your door, you've got to try and go get them. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. But at the same time, you've got to keep going.

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

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

I have to tell you that it's not going to be easy. Take every chance and every opportunity that you can. Don't say 'I can't' or 'I shouldn't' or 'I'm too tired.'

If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.

We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.

Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.