Quotes About Resilience

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.

I always prepare for the worst.

I've played in a few Champions League matches and got into quarter-finals - sometimes unluckily knocked out - but you have to prepare like any other football match: you have to play the game, not the occasion. That's been instilled in me since I was a kid.

I just tried to make as many plays as possible to try and show them how hard I work and how hard I prepare and that I am willing to do whatever it takes to win football games and to accept whatever role they want me to be in. I think that has helped me throughout my career.

It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. You've got to be the same guy; you've got to prepare the same.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the next morning. That's not how acting works. You can do anything to me as an actor; I'm a very resilient guy. Just don't rush me. If you ask me to do it immediately with no time to prepare, I know you have contempt for actors.

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

I don't believe that if one door closes, that's the end. You're in control of that, but you need to seek opportunities and prepare for them.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

I have no control of life. I have to prepare myself for any situation.

Even if you're in a backup role, you've always got to prepare yourself.

The future of Slipknot is always in doubt. I always prepare for each album as if it's gonna be the last.

Of course I have to work harder because I have my limitations, and I have to prepare better and in a different way my body and mental strength, but that is part of my life.

The thing about this league that I've learned is that you can't really harp too much on your last game. The next game is the most important game and you've got to prepare for that.

You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.