Quotes About Determination

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.

To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this.

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

I've never done a big series like 'Game of Thrones' before. All I knew was that it was HBO, and I'd seen what they had done with 'The Sopranos' and 'The Wire.' But when I started reading the script, it was a no-brainer. Yes, yes, yes. Gold. Every time I turned the page.

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'

I just auditioned for 'The Wire' like I just auditioned for any other job.

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

It's how I'm wired. If I'm not the best at something, it ticks me off, and I want to work harder to be the best. It's also the way I was raised.

As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That's the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, 'Well, that's not possible. It can't happen,' I say, 'Yes it is. I'm going to sit here and show you that it can.'

I think it's the way I'm wired, the way I'm built. I want to improve. If you're not improving, someone's passing.

Since childhood, my mind was wired like that. My mindset was I want to be a businessman.

At the end of the day, I've known since I was a little girl that I'm wired to make music.

My approach in 1999 was basically to play what I had, that was all I could do. At the time I was broke. I think I only had one guitar, a flametop green Jackson and I had these DC-10 Mesa Boogie heads. I think I had a cheap Shure wireless.

After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.