Quotes About Resilience

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite happens, I go into a funk. A real, real funk.

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

I believe history of humankind has always faced challenges. I don't think that any other period in history was less problematic then the one in which we live.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

I'm still messed up and have all kinds of problems, just like anybody.

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

When my shoulder problems started, basic methods like massages and icing the shoulder did not help.

Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.

Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

Your girl gets a lot of anxiety. It's OK. It's a learning process.

An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It's a part of the learning process, or else there is no growth.

You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

There's no way my body can be fixed, but what we can hope to do is keep all the deteriorative processes as minimal as possible.

I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you.

I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent.

I didn't knock on any producers' doors for work.

After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

When I broke up with Eric B., I went on a little hiatus. Then all I was trying do is find producers. It's real hard, man.

I'm willing to fail, my producers are willing to fail, my crew is willing to fail.