Quotes About Resilience

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave.

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.

I've never concerned myself with what anyone thought about my activity, be they people within my profession or people outside of it, and I definitely wouldn't concern myself with anything coming from a racist bigot like a Klan member.

Michael Jordan was criticized. Barry Bonds was criticized. Some of the greats in every profession have been criticized. Not everything is peaches and cream.

Football doesn't do sentiment well; it's a cruel profession.

I guess it became easier for me to accept negative comments about my work, my profession - anything work-related because like I said I take them as positive criticisms.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

It means a lot to me to be from London. Obviously, it's where I spent the majority of my life, it's where I learnt a lot about different cultures and different people, and it toughened me up at times.

I've fought in some many different places in the world, even China, so location doesn't affect much.

The thing is, I've had many tough fights in my career, all for different reasons. So I think all those together is what makes me the fighter I am now. The biggest fight I've ever had is against myself - whether to give up or not.

Bubbles only break for a few different reasons, so if I can avoid those things, I can get a lot of things to happen.

Everyone has their own battles, people feel bad all the time for different reasons. For me it was feeling depressed, anxious and out of place. But I wanted to give people something that could sit with them on their own personal level.

There's always going to be something from one season to the next that's going to be a challenge, that's going to have change, that's going to force people to step up, force different roles on people.

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

I don't need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things.

I take each thing as it comes and try and give it 110 per cent - it's just a blessing to be able to do different things.