Quotes About Adversity

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

I have a skill set that often helps me get through hurtful moments or experiences. However, sometimes when the pain cuts really deep, my normal go-to exercises just won't work.

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed. "No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?

I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Some people are much like blisters-they don't show up until the work is done.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Great work is always shunned at first.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

You have to go down before you can come out — that's how these things always work.

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.