Quotes About Adversity

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.

Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work.

I am fighting this. I want to get better, I want to work again. I do believe we are architects of our destinies, but with me somewhere along the line something came loose.

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I'd never work again. So I'm going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn't let me do.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

Fighting evil, it's hard work.

Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.

Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.