Dan Shechtman Quotes

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

When I see what I want, I do it.

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

I go into each game with the same mindset of showing people what I can do and letting the rest take care of itself.

I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters.

I'm always pushing myself.

My will power has always been very strong. If I want something, I'll get it. I've had no trouble keeping my head on my shoulders, nor do I have any chips on there.

I haven't let anybody take me off my path or deter me in any way. It's about seeing an opportunity and taking it.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

If I want something, I go after it.

You really have to have a voice, especially as a female. You've got to be strong-minded and really focus on what your goal is - you can't be all over the place.

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.

I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard work ethic and I was ambitious: I knew I could be a great model.

I always follow my heart and my guts. If I want to do something, I have immense belief in hard work and myself. I have it in me to do well anywhere and in anything I do. I have a deep desire to excel in everything I do.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.