My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s… — Shooter Jennings Copy Share Image
I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a… — Linda Kaplan Thaler Copy Share Image
Wilshere had a lot of physical problems and is a player I always appreciated, but he's unusual. He combines English grit with… — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
'True Grit' was fun to do, but I wasn't cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good,… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, times were different. The way that we would deal with things is what I learned, and that's… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
When you get into fashion, when you're not yet working in fashion, you have this idea about what the fashion world is:… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“Grit doesn’t happen when things are good. Grit happens when we’re tested. When Elvis is dead, and things are bleak at best,… — Jolie Sikes Copy Share Image
“I trained. I punished myself. I thought making myself suffer on a day-to-day basis would prepare me for climbing hard at high… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how fearless you can be when you want something bad enough, the lengths to which you'll go, the grit you'll… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
There are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments. In fact, in our data, grit is usually… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits… — Leigh-Allyn Baker Copy Share Image
“At my old school I was vice president of this club called GRIT,” Lucy tells us. “It stood for Girls Respecting and… — Jennifer Mathieu Copy Share Image
Developing a resiliency, a grit, a level of poise, a composure, a level of perspective, confidence, courage, compassion. These are all things… — Aaron Gordon Copy Share Image
I kept going. The decisions I've had to make, the setbacks, the feeling of having my back against the wall, I was… — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
“trying to do things they can't yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exactly the way that… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“When humans say that someone "is full of grit", they mean full of courage. Before long the sisters were to prove that… — Dick King-Smith Copy Share Image
On long car rides, we would always listen to the 'Blues Brothers' soundtrack and try to emulate everything that Aretha Franklin was… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you… — Lacey Evans Copy Share Image
In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
Londoners are really good at dealing with any crap that's thrown at them. We hunker down, we grit our teeth and we… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
In its rather clinical view of death, 'True Grit' rivals the hardboiled world of 'Red Harvest'-era Dashiell Hammett and prefigures Cormac McCarthy… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability… — Dan Levitan Copy Share Image
“The grit in his tone felt like the perfect pumice stone, smoothing edges of me that had been rough for as long… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
“Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
