Quotes About Adversity

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.

If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

I believe it is only when one comes out of adversity, that one starts to see real beauty.

When somebody starts going down, rats start leaving the sinking ship.

The reality of a startup is you have failures very often.

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior people who know how to run and scale big-company machines.

When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My father didn't say it to me, but he told my mom, 'No. I'm not going to allow that. He'll starve to death.' I grew up in a small town in Illinois where being an actor was not something people did.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

The first boss to give me a shot on-air left the station not long after I started reporting. The next boss fired me, and told me I was the worst person he'd ever seen on TV and that I would never make it. That felt like being punched in the gut repeatedly! But I pulled myself together and kept fighting for my dream.

My dad used to get to the nastiest letters. But somebody had to take the time to type it, stamp it, send it to him, send it to the radio station. And I mean nasty stuff. It's not like nasty people with nasty opinions just popped up out of nowhere.

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.