A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.
Sometimes things don’t go your way, but you get up and keep going.
You can’t keep going back to Detroit because you’re big in Detroit. You can go maybe once a year and sell it out because everybody loves you and looks forward to seeing you again. You can’t go back twice in the same year.
The voice muscle doesn’t last forever. I have a lot of friends who are classical and opera singers. My friend Beverly Sills stopped singing in her 50s, so I’m careful with mine. But I’ll keep going as long as it lets me.
Take everything you can from what people say. Keep going and stick to your instincts. And what your soul tells you to do, use that.
It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, ‘I am in my office now.’
It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Really, what you should tell a novelist is, ‘Keep going until you finish the draft. Don’t show it to anyone.’
I don’t think it’s ungracious to seek cosmetic help – it has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have been tempted. But it’s too short-term. Once you start down that road, you have to keep going.
We hope, for anyone else trying to make a dream come true, they can find the faith to keep going in ‘Fly’ when they’re about to give up.
To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I’m going to just keep going.
I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.
I want to be the best, but it comes with a lot of work. And it can be pressure if you put it on yourself in that way. But if I keep going the way I’m going, and with the good Lord guiding me the way he’s been guiding me, and the way I let him take control of my life, the sky is the limit.
I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the moments where I felt really down, I just remembered, ‘You’re almost there. Just keep going. Keep working hard.’
Just trying to keep going. Just try to stay in the present the best I can. Not get too big-headed or too down on myself.
Every time I dive, I feel an adrenaline rush like I did that first time. Until my body fails on me, I will keep going.
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
That’s the beautiful thing about being an artist, is you can take risks and take chances and hopefully be secure enough to just keep going with it if you fall flat on your face.
The scripts of ‘The Wire’ are fantastic – the scripts of ‘Breaking Bad,’ the scripts of ‘Mad Men,’ the scripts of ‘The Sopranos,’ the scripts of ‘Battlestar Galactica.’ You could keep going on. They’re incredibly well written.
I used to love watching that programme ’19 Kids And Counting’ and I thought I might just keep going and have 19 kids myself. I had these big plans to home-school them all and I even wanted to be a surrogate as well.
I don’t know if I’ll end up being a top player or not. But I’ll be working hard to achieve that and I wouldn’t complain if it happened. I just have to keep going and see where it takes me.
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
I don’t think that they know fully what’s happening with Miss Match so therefore I don’t know how many more if any, if the show’s even gonna keep going.
I just try to keep going and work on projects that are exciting to me, with people I respect and enjoy and want to work with. That takes me in different directions sometimes, but it’s all been a pretty good ride.
I feel I’ve been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That’s why I’ve been able to keep going.
The more we learn about new communications, the more capacity we need, and that is going to keep going on forever. That’s been happening since radio was invented, and that’s going to keep going.
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
Being one of my sources is exhausting. It’s not one interview and you’re done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.
First and foremost, I make music to satisfy my creative urges, but at the same time, I know my fans are waiting, so they’re the ones that push me to keep going.
It’s not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn’t matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I’m just happy to keep going.
In the second round, everyone knows I can keep going.
My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They’re both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.
Every single ‘no’ that you get, you know that that was an experience that you learned from. Keep going.
Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere – the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.
I really thank my coach, my parents. They always tell me to fight and keep going and never ever give up.
Speed bumps, I was thinking, you know, you’re driving along, everything’s OK, and then there’s a speed bump to go, ‘Slow down.’ Go over it real slowly, and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life.
Roast potatoes – I can’t say no. At Christmas, I reach over for the fifth or sixth one, and I think I could keep going until I explode.
And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. ‘This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?’ So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.
Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can’t go back.
Everyone has a certain hand dealt to them and you just have to work out whether you can keep going. The thing is, I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t act.
Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don’t they?
My goal is to keep going out there and defending my belt and stacking up pay cheques to set myself up for the future.
I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It’s like a promise that’s never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren’t really stories. Just pages.
I just want to play until I think I don’t feel good – and if I can still do it. If I can’t do it, I don’t think I’ll keep going once I don’t feel I’m playing the way I want to.
Russians aren’t perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.
Families do not stop living. We have got to keep going on. This is what people do.
It’s great to just keep going and throw new stuff out there.
What I’m really looking to do is retire undefeated; I’m not sure when the right time to retire will be, but I know that I’m not done yet. Something still feels unfinished, and that’s why I’m going to keep going.
I want people to think of me as a ‘Mindset’ guy, a journalist, a commentator, a social media personality, a filmmaker, an author, but I got to – I have to pivot so far away from anything pro-Trump, I just got to keep going that way.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
I wish I had more of a game plan of how I’m going to, like, take down toxic masculinity. But I think that game plan is just going to reveal itself if we keep going. I think I need to keep plugging along, and it’ll happen.
