Quotes About Challenges

That's life in the league for you, though. I mean - that's life for you, period. Things don't always happen in a straight line. There's usually going to be a zig here, a zag there, that catches you by surprise. And then it's on you to adapt.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

When I moved from Independiente to Atletico Madrid, I was only 18, and I found it hard to adapt. But what surprised me most about moving to England was how fast the game was. I like it, but it is so quick.

Sometimes I am surprised by the kind of roles that are offered to me.

I had a pregnancy that wasn't private... A lot of people had their opinions about it. They were surprised that I came up pregnant, which was a surprise to me, because I'm a woman, and women get pregnant, and Lauren comes first before the actress, so having my son was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.

I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.

Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.

Like most women, I thought it would be easy once I decided to start a family. I was surprised that Mother Nature kept poking me in the eye, saying, 'Nope, nope, nope.'

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

I think what's surprised me about the music industry is that you never know what's going to happen. I've had to teach myself that, because I love to know everything. I'm quite a control freak when it comes to stuff like that.

I've always been surprised at the number of people who think we've got it all figured out. It's incorrect, and it's a real problem.

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.

Nothing really surprises me anymore. You put yourself out there - you're open and honest with what you have to deal with.

Life is full of challenges and surprises, and I've had my share.

In football, surprises are always possible.

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.

Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it's so even. I think you can't really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that's something where you can have surprises.

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

Life surprises you. It happens to the best of actors, we have good and bad phases.

I think on 'ER,' my other long-running show, I had some ideas about what's going on. 'Stargate Universe,' they were kind of secretive too a little bit about what they wanted to do, but I kind of liked working this way. I like the surprises, and I like knowing just enough to work on the character.

There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well.