Quotes About Determination

Y si mi tutora hubiera sabido cuán asustada estaba y cuán seriamente contemplaba posibles soluciones extremas, como el obtener un certificado médico que me declarara incapacitada para el estudio de la Química, en que constara que las fórmulas me mareaban y cosas por el estilo, estoy segura de que no me hubiera escuchado un solo minuto y me habría hecho hacer el curso a pesar de todo.

And damn it to hell, if I don't be quiet I'll never get that Botany done! –

I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming.

I felt moved and tender and perfectly certain about what I was going to do.

I picked up my pocketbook and started back over the cold stones to where my shoes kept their vigil in the violet light.

Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»

Quería estar donde nadie más que yo supiera que podría llegar.

I am writing with a blunt pencil tied on a mile-long stick, at something far off over the horizon line. Will I break through someday? At least if I get 300 pages written by the end of May, I'll have the creaking, gushing skeleton plot of the whole thing.

I love my rejections. They prove that I'm trying'. I'm convinced this quote from Sylvia Plath is one of the best incentives to keep a struggling writer from giving up.

It Will Come. If I Work.

The feeling one must get up earlier and earlier to get ahead of the day, which by one o'clock is determined.

It influenced my life that I did not find content immediately and easily - - and now I am I because of that.

Pray to yourself for the guts to make the summer work. One sale: that would help. Work for that.

I am at Smith because I wanted it and worked for it. I am going to be a Guest Editor on Mlle in June because I wanted it and worked for it. I am being published in Harper's because I wanted it and worked for it. Luckily I could translate wish to reality by the work.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt....

now comes before all else: there is much to bear, and I must be strong and rested to be brave enough.

Enough to snuff the quick Of her small heat out, but before the weight Of stones and hills of stones could break Her down to mere quartz grit in that stony light She turned back.

New Yorker rejection of poems may smack me in the stomach any morning.

she) ends up steering New York like her own private car.

He habitually wears an expression as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall, and was about to do it.

The size of the problem is never the issue—what matters is the size of you!

Rich people, as we've said earlier, take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work.

One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful. Well, they just found out. You get what you truly intend to get. If you want to get rich, your goal has to be rich. Not to have enough to pay the bills, and not just to have enough to be comfortable. Rich means rich!

The way I figure it, there are over 6.3 billion people in the world and there's no way I'm going to saddle myself with a downer. Either they move up or I move on!