Celia Hammond Quotes

I tend to latch on to things and not let go.

I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.

When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).

One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.