Quotes About Adversity

I made some choices that weren't right in the past. It cost me in terms of my confidence and everything.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

In the past, my voice was my enemy.

There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.

When a match doesn't go your way, people tend to take to social media and just say very inappropriate things.

I'm not incapable of going through things.

I worked at a shoe store on 86th Street called Orva, in the hosiery department because nobody went there. That's where they put me because I was too incapable of doing anything.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

If I'm scared of something there's more incentive for me to do it.

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.

When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch.

I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

As African Americans, we always have to fight for inclusion, despite your moral background: Christian, Muslim, Jewish - it doesn't matter.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

On New Year's Day 2008 I had two bailiffs turn up on my doorstep and because I had so little income I had not been paying bills, and I respect the concept of paying bills, I'm very much in favour of it, I just couldn't quite get it together.

When I was young, my parents bought a house in Vasai, but because it was inconvenient for us all to travel, they sent my sister and I to live with our nana-nani at Dadar.

When times are tough, we tend to outperform as margins increase.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

When you lose your parents when you're a kid, you kind of get this freedom and sense of independence way younger. And obviously I wish my mum had never died but I like the way my life turned out because of who that turned me into.

her only comfort was to curse each searing day with a creative lexicon she didn't know she possessed.