Quotes About Determination

My mom single-handedly brought up two girls, although my father was also a large part of my life.

Opening the batting in Test cricket, facing up to fast bowlers looking to do their worst with a new, hard ball is incredibly tough. You have to be brave, single-minded and prepared to work very, very hard.

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.

I was always single-minded, never thinking about what was being said or written about me.

A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.

George is very, very single-minded in his approach. And I think a lot of the things that he has said and done have been misconstrued as arrogant rather than the single-mindedness they really are.

These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.

Lee Chong Wei is no doubt the best men's singles opponent I've played, and this gives me extra motivation to raise my game each time I play against him.

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

I was eighth in the world in doubles, 67th in singles. Could I have achieved more? Yes, perhaps, but I did it my way.

You have some singles that play doubles, but you have doubles players that can beat singles players when they're playing doubles.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I feel like I am constantly getting challenged by every song I sing because I'm not that lucky girl who sings 100 similar songs and becomes famous.

I got to meet Rachel Platten, who sings 'Fight Song,' I love that song.

I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.

I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?

If you let in a goal, you don't sink into your shell, you come out even harder and put people on the back foot, home or away.

Life is for living and there is only one way to go - unless you are prepared to sink and go down with the ship, which I don't choose to do.

It was never on the cards for me to go to uni, going to a sink secondary modern in the Midlands. The threat was that if you didn't get your exams, you would end up in a factory. Which I did, but actually that was a great experience, and I would have even got an engineering diploma if I had stuck my three years out.

You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.