Quotes About Determination

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted.

When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, 'That's what I want to do.' And that was it.

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

'Twelve Angry Men' was done with an intermission, and I took that out. I really wanted an audience to feel like they had no break, just like those jurors, and you're not going to get out of that room until you come to a decision.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

When I played for Boston Breakers in my early twenties, I really stepped up my training, which meant running drills until you're sick.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.

The goal for the top American isn't the top twenty - it's top ten, top five, number one in the world.

I've done, on video, 150-pound dumbbells in each hand -I think it was, like, twenty two reps - on an incline.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.

A lack of resources may slow you down, but don't let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

When you see your friends going out every Friday night, and earning two hundred quid at the building site, and you're earning twenty-five pounds at Arsenal, and you have to stay in every Thursday, Friday, you know it is hard.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

I tried twice to get into drama school and didn't, so I worked my way up through the fringe.

I've failed once or twice real big, independent.