uncompromising pursuit Quotes

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything. I respect all forms of movement and lifestyles, but I am in a bubble. I wake up, it is in my head; I go to sleep, it's in my head, 24/7.

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

You can't aspire to have heightened senses, whereas you can aspire to tell the truth, every single second, and you can aspire to be dogged and just never let anything be enough, never give in, and never give up.

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.

Be relentless in pursuing your happiness.

It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

If you truly love something, fight for it every day, as long as it makes you happy.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.