Novala Takemoto Quotes

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.

When people have passion there's nothing they can't do.

I love going after what I want and not stopping till I get it.