What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."
Florence Scovel Shinn

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
Julia Child

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
Knute Rockne

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Thomas Sowell

This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.
Jesse James

From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.
Jesse James

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
Quentin Tarantino

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
Dane Cook

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
Babe Ruth

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
Rick Warren

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Rick Warren

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
Paula Abdul

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers