Quotes About Adversity

The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.

You might have two years probation and do good for a whole year, and you make one mistake, and you got to start over.

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite happens, I go into a funk. A real, real funk.

I believe history of humankind has always faced challenges. I don't think that any other period in history was less problematic then the one in which we live.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

Every experience, good or bad, is a learning process.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.

Growth is a painful process.

Your girl gets a lot of anxiety. It's OK. It's a learning process.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

People were like, 'You're crazy. You're going to lose all your credibility and fans.' But I wanted to try new things and make my own music. So I became a producer.

When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.

Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in.

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.