Quotes About Determination

In today's day and age, one looks forward to experimenting and it pays off at times and at times it doesn't. This does not mean one should stop trying.

It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.

In perfect conditions, with a championship mindset and ready to peak, anything is possible.

I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.

I was very excited, but I didn't really think I could get the work in 'Peanuts.' Still, I really, really wanted it, because I knew I could do it. And I got it.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

I always wanted to race but I never thought it would be possible. My dad put me in a cadet kart when I was seven years old and I wasn't strong enough to hit the brake pedal.

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

I don't put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He's just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

I'm inspired by the fact that for every kid we see committed to crime, there's kids determined to go to uni and not follow their peers.

There certainly was a time when I started when people looked at me as the secretary to Dr. Buss. Being the boss' daughter amongst your peers, you gotta show up every day.

I wasn't mad, but it was maybe a little frustrating sometimes seeing some friends and peers my age do well. Not because I wasn't cheering for them - because I feel like I was as good as them.

You should almost always draw in pen. It forces you to be confident. You can never erase, so it makes you really focus on your line and not wimp out.

One penalty miss doesn't change anything.

When you step up and take a penalty, it's 50/50 - but you've got to back yourself.

I'm confident in myself. It's not a case of I've missed a penalty, and I'm down.

I think when I was younger, I knew I was either going to get a penalty or score a goal. It was a gamble. But it benefited me.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

I'm still short now, but when I was 14, I was like a pencil. You had to be aggressive and hold your own.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.