Quotes About Resilience

That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious.

Life is too precious to worry about what other people are saying or what they think.

My job is to be OK without a precise plan.

Growing up poor is precisely as demeaning as you'd expect, and while forgiving bullies is easy, reliving those experiences emotionally is deeply upsetting.

It sounds precocious, but I knew that I had to listen to my own inner voice and ignore what everyone else was saying, even my mum.

People have preconceived ideas about disability. When people tell me that I can't do something, it just makes me go 'Oh, yeah? Watch this.' I kind of like a little adversity.

I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?

Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail.

And journaling became the place that I was able to find a sense of narrative control at a time when I had to cede so much control to others. It really - it became the place where I began to interrogate my predicament and to try to excavate some meaning from it.

Life is full of things that you can't predict.

I don't make plans for my future. I have learned that you cannot predict what will happen.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

If you aspire to be an actor, go ahead. But do have a backup plan because you can't predict your future in the industry.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

You can't predict injuries. That's one thing you can't do.

Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.

People can assume and predict and it is up to us to prove them all wrong.

Predictability can eventually be defended.

We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.

It is not that Covid is going to impede the progress of humanity. It is not as much a changing event as it was being predicted, according to me.

These dire predictions of COVID are behind us. Covid is getting milder and people are learning to treat it better. The percentage of deaths is coming down. We are learning to live with it.

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.