Quotes About Adversity

I used to hear about guys who played saying how difficult it is getting up in the morning, and now I'm experiencing it; those same effects.

Experiments don't always pay.

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

At five years old, I became the man of the house. When he left, my dad let me know that. It put a certain drive in me that I can't explain.

Keeping it simple, 'Bounce Back' explains my trust issues. I'm sure everyone can relate in some way.

It's funny to say its fun to explore someone's really rough time, but it is. It's exciting.

I think it's a bit short-sighted to play any character and not explore, in some respects, the way they act when things get really bad.

I do kind of think there's a bit of an overemphasis on - in the community - on sort of achieving ever-so-slightly better state-of-the-art results on particular problems, and a little underappreciation of completely different approaches to problems that maybe don't get state of the art because it's actually super hard and a pretty explored area.

It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.

You can get exposed at full-back - it is that kind of position.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

In comparison to an able-bodied person, it's incredible, the amount of extra resistance I have, in comparison to an able body.

We've lived through some extraordinary moments, and the saddest moments as well. We have to learn.

I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.

My life has been extreme. Most people will not have the experience I've had. But the things that changed me, really changed me, they happen to everyone.

It's really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it's true.

We don't have to let extremists define us.

In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.

If you're an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you.

I've started to get iritis, which affects the eyes. But I'm not going to give in.

We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and conquer them.

Celebrate creativity and confidence in the face of adversity.