Ann Patchett Quotes

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

The minute we think we went hard, go harder. We gotta work.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

I'm one of those people who always needs a mountain to climb. When I get up a mountain as far as I think I'm going to get, I try to find another mountain.

I like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.

I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.