Quotes About Adversity

I'm very good at being out of work.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players

One of the things you dont always realize when youre younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over.

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.

Sometimes things don't work like they should.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.