Quotes About Determination

You don't win games by batting long periods of time.

One of the main reasons I started writing these one-man shows was that this really evil casting director once said to me, 'you're peripheral and you'll always be peripheral. You'll come in with the zingers and have very little to do, so just accept that and take the money.'

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

I tend to do things without my parents' permission.

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

My father didn't want me to go to New York City, and I was determined to go. Learning to give myself the permission to be who I was in the world and to make my own choices was hard.

Have you watched Animal Planet? The lioness is out there hunting the zebras, the gazelles, all sorts of things, so you need to be the fierce lioness or dragon that you are. Have that inner fire. See what you want, get it, and ask nobody for permission.

I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst.

My whole life I have sort of done my own thing. I rarely ask permission; I sometimes ask forgiveness.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

When you permit yourself to lose for more than 30 minutes then it can carry over to the next day. I think it's important to understand that. I think that mindset is contributing.

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.