Dee Rees Quotes

If you have a goal, you have to understand that it's not going to be easy. It might take a while.

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

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.

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

I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too.

I like to do things that you need to chip away at.

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

You've got to go out there and play your tail off every single day and at times during the year it can be tough to do that.

Sometimes I can be a little bit I don't know, stubborn or something. Maybe to a fault.

If you keep working at something and stay with it, eventually good things will happen to you.

I have to be patient, keep performing, and be consistent.

You're going to have to grind it out on some drives.

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

All of us, we know, not just in football but in life, that we cannot achieve important things without consistency.

I have a pretty intense work ethic. If something's not done, I cannot let go until I get it done.