Quotes About Determination

Never let your circumstances determine your outcome in life.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

I'm somebody who gets up every day and says, 'What am I going to do today, and how am I going to do it?' I think it moves me toward some outcome I'm hoping for and also has some, you know, some joy attached to it.

It's no good in a scene to have one actor lie down because the scene says it's the other actor's moment. Each actor has to believe that with extra will, the outcome of a scene can be different. An actor can win the scene if he exerts the most powerful will in that moment.

Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.

You try to ask the best questions possible, but you don't necessarily control the outcome.

You have to continue to be positive and go out there and play hard, no matter what the outcome is.

If I don't get the outcome I want, I'm just going to keep working.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

I have always wanted to outdo myself, be it films or shows.

I know that my body and my mind can take anything that any space outfit wants to give me - high altitude chamber test, which is fine; centrifuge test, which I know I can do five and six G's. These things are easy for me.

No, I wasn't a bad kid. I was always intelligent, and strong-minded, and outgoing, like I am now.

I don't think I can ever outgrow NXT.

There are some guys that can roll out of bed and they can throw 96 from the very first outing. I've just never been one of those guys.

I just kept trying to tell myself, Don't be a hero and make a 3. If you keep making 4s, I think I'll eventually outlast somebody.

Sport has definitely been an outlet for me.

I look back now and think, what was I doing, moving to Hollywood with $2,000 and a duffel bag? But there is no money in martial arts competitions, and in Hollywood, there is an outlet for those skills. And I have always been pretty fearless.

Things like 'following your passion' and 'finding your creative outlets' didn't mean anything to me because I didn't have that area of my brain.

Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.

You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.

I have a very positive outlook. I set goals for myself, and I write down my goals.

Mental outlook is such an important part of being a goalie.