Quotes About Adversity

In times of crisis, you just have to bear down and lean on your own instincts and your own beliefs and make decisions.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

Ive got three brothers and a sister; everybody played an instrument. When I was at Manchester United and I broke my leg in 1992, I took up the sax. I play it on The Establishments album.

There's no worse way to insult a woman than by saying she looks like a man, but once a woman gets over that, there is no stronger woman.

I know people will criticise when you play bad; that is part of this job, and I am fine with that. That is not a problem. The problem is the insults. That is what hurts the most.

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

It's not always easy to take the high road when you are hurting, but in the long run at least you still have your integrity and dignity.

Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they're best at. Too often, they're driven away from it by other people.

It is so difficult when you are out for a year, not just because you are not playing, but because other players are still playing. They are in competition all the time, so when you come in again and try to play them at the same level, with the same intensity, it is very hard.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

Being given a terrible piece of information shouldn't ruin the interactions you have with the people around you or mean that you can't become something, even if it's not the idea of what you thought you were going to be.

My early interactions with VCs were really, really poor.

I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.

I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships.

I have an interesting life, and I'm strong.

The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know how to do both. People think rich is better. I don't know.

I don't think X-23's past is the most interesting thing about her, but it's not like she can escape it, either.

It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?

When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.

We were totally confident that we would make it internationally. We had no money or instruments. We used cake tins or bottles with water in them - anything to make sounds.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.