Quotes About Determination

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

We're not defined by our circumstances, and we can always find a way to rise above it.

Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.

I can't play 'Madden' without an index finger!

I am trying to build the biggest callus possible on my first finger so I can do one-finger bends and vibrato like B.B. King.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

Fingers crossed, you'll hear a lot more of me.

It's football - I would play with seven fingers if I had too, man.

I've had broken fingers and still played for Team Canada.

You don't get to a Champions League final by clicking your fingers.

You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE's.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

If I start something, I have to finish it. I know that's annoying - it drives my husband mad - but even if something's not going my way, I have to see it through.

I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.

I'm a one-track mind: Once I start something, I have to finish it.

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Sometimes you've got to be able to finish at the rim.