Quotes About Resilience

When you're driven to your absolute limit, working 14 hours for 14 days straight, you have to know what you want, and not listen to all this other crap outside.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

In the car business, sometimes you crash.

I remember, my first season was 1999, and I must have crashed about 13 times in that first year. But then, in the second season, you crash about half as much and then, in the third year, even less again.

Most riders, experienced riders, if they go down in a crash and don't get up straight away then they know something is wrong.

I think that 'Sound of My Voice' is about the claustrophobia of living today, and how do you crawl out of the claustrophobia towards the light?

I'm in boxing to be a champion and if I lose it brings me all the way back to the bottom, and I don't want to keep crawling back up. I'm too old to be doing that, man.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

I'm not the best fighter but I'm the craziest fighter.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

You have to believe in yourself and have to believe you are a little bit crazy to be the best.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'

I did so many crazy things while drinking.

Of course there have been times when I've done crazy things. But I don't think I'm crazy. I just grew up in a crazy world.

Adversity creates comedy.

Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.

My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

I fail most of the time. As a creator, and as CEO of Patreon, things can't go well all of the time.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

I think of women as an all-being creature.

I always felt Dot was one of those characters who should stay the same. She's a simple creature.

That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

I've always felt that people put me down, and I'd fight back. I played football 15 years, and nobody gave me any credit, and they never will do.