Quotes About Adversity

There has always been an inner self-motivation for me. Mine goes back to my United days of us against the world and proving everyone wrong.

I tried put everything I had into doing something and proving that MS wasn't going to hold me back and kissing goodbye to MS.

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.

Of course defenders will try to provoke me - that is their job.

I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Psychologically, for an athlete to miss a game because of injury, it's tough.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

Growing up in a pub taught me a lot about life.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Being in the public eye, going through so much in life personal and my work, all of that put together it's either it will destroy you or make you a better person.

Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.

I was a diligent little boy at my primary school and then I went to public school and became mediocre at most things and pretty rubbish at others. I had a really tough time. I didn't enjoy it at all. But it made me the man I am today.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

There are times when adverse publicity has hit my life, but these things are the growing pains of showbiz marriage.

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.

When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in China, I was writing for myself, so that's the process of writing for myself that was the most important thing.

I will not buck to pressure of delivering to publishers.

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.