Quotes About Determination

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

What 'Twilight' gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

Now before I work out, I think, 'I love exercise,' and it works.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.

Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we're going to whine or do the work.

I like to get to work early. Before my brain knows what I'm up to.

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.