Quotes About Challenges

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

The amount of surgeries I've had are absolutely minimal compared to the reconstructive surgeries I've had. Probably 300.

Coming from 'Homework,' which was a really minimal album, 'Discovery' was much more difficult to perform on stage.

Interestingly enough, on every team there's usually a minimum of two and a maximum of seven knuckleheads on a roster.

I have been in the politics for the last 40 years. I became chief minister in 1995 and worked in the NDA and UPA. I have seen it all.

I was a minister in the Vajpayee government. Atalji wanted to do so many things. But, since he was heading a coalition government, he could not do all those things.

I do understand that, having been a minister, there is difficulty putting stuff into legislation which is being negotiated. I quite understand.

In 60 years I'm yet to meet a Chief Minister who blames others for his own inability to work.

I have no hassles handling U.P. For 57 years, the state has been ruled by non-BSP parties which is why it is so backward. In my first term as the chief minister, in four months I did the work of four years.

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

Obviously, defence is very sensitive and very challenging ministry.

We're a mess in Minnesota.

I've been on successful teams pretty much my whole career, but even those two seasons I finished with Memphis and Minnesota, you learn just as much from adversity and losses as you do from success.

When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.

When you break glass ceilings, you're going to get minor scrapes by a shard or two from the glass.

I would argue that electing Donald Trump would be a disaster for minorities; it would be a disaster when it comes to foreign policy.

Millennials, minorities, women - until we can connect with those populations, we're going to have some difficulty electorally.

I've been extremely lucky in that I've been able to play roles that are not defined by their ethnicity. But that's not a common thing for people of ethnic minorities.

Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.

Being an entrepreneur isn't easy, but it's even harder for minority and women-led companies.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.