Quotes About Challenges

We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.

It's tough being a small player. You don't want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.

I know that I can't get a big head when things start to go well because you never know what's around the corner. It's the life of an actor.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.

Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.

It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

Since Bollywood is getting more corporate, it is getting difficult for the composer alone to take a decision unless you are a big name like Pritam or Vishal-Shekhar who can speak his heart out and say that 'This is the singer I want for this song.'

Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.

Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.

I've been around the bend in corporations.

Big problems don't rest on the shoulders of government or corporations alone.

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

Just because something exists in the society, it doesn't mean it has to be correct.

Cancer is something that can happen to anyone, like a sportsperson who is eating right and doing his bit correctly. Cancer really takes your life away.

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

New York has been embarrassed by corruption and lags behind in too many important categories. We can do better.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

It's so hard and impossible to shoot in L.A. The costs are astronomical.

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.