Quotes About Resilience

When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

I get teased a lot for my optimism.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

I was a fat kid. I can laugh now. But I got teased about being an Oompa Loompa and stuff like that.

In tech, you create the foundation; even sometimes if it doesn't work, you take that same developmental idea, and you use it to apply to a different area.

I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film.

Anyone who thinks restaurants are hard should try working at a tech company.

One thing I learned about Tech N9ne is just hard work. That dude don't sleep. I ain't ever seen this dude really sleep.

Georgia Tech definitely helped me a lot. I don't know about coming out of high school. But Georgia Tech was good for me. I got a lot stronger, a lot more used to not having the ball in my hands all the time, moving without the ball, setting screens.

I don't have a smart phone. I didn't have one when I arrived in the U.S., and somehow life has continued. I teach at Stanford University, I launched a tech company - miraculously, it all seems to work without a phone!

I wasn't the most technical player. But I was fast, and if I push the ball past a player, I can get there. Everyone always made fun of me in a good way for that.

Everyone has technical flaws - no matter how many runs you score.

Everyone has technical issues - you have them until you die - but you have to be aware of them in a certain way.

I learn from my failures, but I will always try technical things; I will always try to take pleasure and do great things.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.

As a child, I played on the road against bigger players. Due to my technical skills, I've always got by.

I was a born fighter before I got technical, and that's still in me.

You can see a lot of technical fouls, ejections but at the same time, it's a man's sport.

Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally.

I think it is more important to adjust mentally than technically. What happens at No 3 is that you have to be very careful with your shot selection than at No 5.