I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.
I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
They say love will find a way. I know determination will.
Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
We have to continue our efforts with determination.
Although separating mitochondria and microsomes might appear worlds apart from the determination of the molecular weight of macromolecules, certain concepts were common to the two operations and could be usefully transposed from the latter to the former.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.