Quotes About Tenacity

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

I'm not a guy who goes into the neighborhood, gets beat up by the bully's gang, and then now I want to join their gang. That's just not me. I wanna fight - let's go! I mean, I'm gonna stand up for myself. That's just the competitive nature of where I come from, the era I grew up in.

Everyone else wants to hear 'I wanna be Top 5,' or 'I want to be winning a Grand Slam.' Those are all goals of mine, but I'm not going to put a time limit on them.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.

The nice thing about 'Samson & Delilah' is that the team behind it are real hustlers - they really want it to happen.

Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.

When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go.

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.

You're a warrior or you're not.

I've done it the hard way - first Olympic gold medallist from Great Britain to win a world title, the 'road warrior.' I love that tag because I do travel.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy.

again. Fred

stubborn since he came into the world. He won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the burglaries and puts the offenders behind bars, no matter

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Character is what can do without success.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questioning, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

Madrid es tener un gabán que abriga mucho y con el que se puede ir tranquilo hasta a los entierros con relente. Madrid es no admitir lo gótico. Madrid es la improvisación y la tenacidad. Madrid es quedarse alegre sin dinero y no saber cómo se pudo comprar lo que se tiene en casa. Madrid es un lugar de pocas palmeras. Madrid es presenciar cómo los churreros hacen los churros como si hiciesen monedas falsas, algo clandestino en la noche, pero legítimo en la mañana.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).