Quotes About Resilience

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.

I have seen several hardships since I was a child. As a result, I don't perceive things the way most people do.

I've always has been involved in things that may be perceived or may synonymously be associated with pressure, so it's never been a bother.

How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

All artists, no matter who they are, have always come into contact with criticism. No one's gonna like what you do 100 percent of the time.

I don't think the game should be perfect. It's 95 percent mistakes out there - you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you. It's a crazy, chaotic game.

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

It has always been in my make up to play a high percentage of games.

Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

I fight to drive my percentages through the roof for winning and lower my percentage by taking the least amount of damage and least amount of hits.

I couldn't care less lots of times about getting scored on late in a game because it would affect my goals-against average or my save percentage.

I just have to be ready and shoot it no matter what percentage I'm shooting.

I'm trying to be myself, trying and be aggressive no matter what percentage I'm shooting.

Everyone seems to have this perception that I'm injury-prone or I've had a lot of injuries, and that's not the case at all.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

You can accept that perception of yourself that you're getting too old to be interesting or buyable. Or you can kind of do what you do and see what happens.

I can't worry about what somebody thinks, the perception. All I can do is work hard and continue down the path that I'm on.

I will not bow down to others' perceptions of me; I will only rise in the name of art, love and music.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.

None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.