Quotes About Determination

To cast Ida, it took ages, and I was a bit desperate. I couldn't find somebody I could believe in. I spent months looking for the lead among young actresses and drama students.

I would love to work with everyone, but I am not desperate. Things will happen eventually.

In order to win in the NFL... you've got to be desperate to win a championship.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before and I desperately wanted to finish a book for the first time.

I am a person with no desperation and I live on hope, but the difference is that I do not compromise on hope.

I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and writers who despise you.

There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here.

When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaign of denigration and infantilization.

I wasn't sure what it would take to make it in the theater, but despite the struggle, that was all I ever really wanted.

Despite the fact that I haven't watched a lot of serials, I always wanted to work in them.

Prizefighter changed my life in so many ways, and I was dying to go into it despite me being the least experienced.

I always wanted to be an NBA player, and despite what anybody said, I was going to get to that point.

I was a terrible student. When I went to Sidwell Friends, there were 100 kids in my class. I was the worst student, by far. But I had a few teachers who, despite all that, believed in me.

No dessert. I don't do dessert.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Excuses destroy success every time.

Things are gonna happen in life. Either you are gonna help do something about it or you just gonna let it happen and destroy you.

I won't let anything destroy me.

If you are not 100 per cent, Virender Sehwag or Chris Cairns will destroy you.

When I'm fighting it's just search and destroy.

I don't want to just meet LeBron. I want to destroy him on the court one day.