Quotes About Determination

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

No one has the right to beat you.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

Do whatever you do intensely.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

It is either easy or impossible.

As long as i live i will have control over my being

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Heart and mind overcome all.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.