Quotes About Determination

Julia would do anything to make the time pass. She killed time, murdered it, massacred it and hid the bodies. She threw her days in bunches onto the bonfire with both hands and watched them go up in fragrant smoke. It wasn't easy. Sometimes it felt like the hours had ground to a halt. They fought her as they passed, one after the other, like stubborn stools.

She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.

He would lose whatever he had to lose, if that's what it took to win.

But not even the end of the world was going to stop Janet from being a bitch. It was the principle of the thing.

Maybe this was the only way it could have gone. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. That was the hard part, accepting that you didn't get to choose which way you went.

He was going to be a motherfucking Magician.

Sometimes you just have to do things

Now that he was teaching Quentin could see why the faculty didn't bother trying to improve the climate. It kept people amazingly focused. … You could actually watch as the determination to seize the moment and live life to the fullest ebbed right out of them, and they resigned themselves to lonely, silent, indoor study instead.

It was too easy, and he'd had enough of doing things the easy way.

The situation wasn't ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,

She'd been in math classes with Quentin since they were ten years old, and anything he could do she could do just as well, backward and in high heels if necessary.

He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.

but you'll never be ready. Not until you decide to be.

Of course I'm not sure," he said. "That's why you go. To find out if it's enough. You just have to be sure you want to find out.

People are very determined to see only what they can explain.

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything. "But

You can't just decide to be happy." "No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable.

The room filled with a collective rustling of paper, like a flock of birds taking off. Heads bowed in unison. Quentin recognized this motion. It was the motion of a bunch of high-powered type-A test killers getting down to their bloody work. That was all right. He was one of them.

autistically focused right

Give 'em Hades.

I want you to know that I mean it in the kindest possible way when I say that you are being the most unbelievable pussy.

She'd broken her staff and drowned her book and sworn off magic forever.

Maybe she was crazy, but she wasn't stupid. She'd seen Terminator 2. She wasn't going out like Sarah Connor.