Quotes About Challenges

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

Sometimes, you just feel like you're just surviving for parts of the season.

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

I had to figure out a different way of walking to ease my journey to the top, surviving in mountains, and more importantly, I learnt patience.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

The best life in the world. 'Survivor' was nothing compared to what I did, and it's just that way.

I got a lot of criticism for going back on 'Survivor' to play 'Survivor: All Stars.'

In the game of 'Survivor,' there is no time for regrets.

My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I have done a lot greater things than 'Survivor.' Going through SEAL training was much harder than 'Survivor.'

I consider myself a survivor.

If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.

When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to put me. The music wasn't 'black black' sounding. It wasn't R&B; it wasn't straight up hip-hop, although obviously in that dimension and world.

My cognitive skills are a little suspect at times. It comes and goes on certain days. I can be sitting here and you might say what's wrong with him, and I'll figure out what I was saying and start going again.

Living the life I have lived - being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time - has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it's rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

I was always the person who would make the mistake. I was the one who would get suspended from school.

I had good grades in school, but I was always in trouble. I used to get suspended and I'm not very good at being told what to do.

There will always be players injured or suspended.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.