Quotes About Determination

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.

There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

All my films are about kind of being seen to be one thing when you're actually something else, and the power of the female spirit to make things work your way on your terms. Which is what I do.

I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.

I always question myself, but I always say, 'Come on, we can do something good.'

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

When I started playing football, I started as a left-defender. Maybe I wasn't very talented in that position but I knew that something good could come out of it. I got some skills with my feet and that helped me a lot later on. Those qualities have helped me a lot in my career.

Every day, in every single walk of life, you can do something good, and people will have something bad to say about you. You just get on with it and do your job as best you can.

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

Once I dedicated my time to mixed martial arts, I became careful about what I let into my mind. I made a goal of being the best on Earth in mixed martial arts and fighting. I wanted to build my mind into something good, not just of the world. I wanted to be different.

It is very important to be humble but to maintain the conviction that we can do something good.

If you take control of yourself and you make the right cut or the right screen, then something good will come out of it.

I think you can always chase something good and great in this game.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

It's a conscious decision to keep trying to do something new, to do things that excite me from my gut.