Quotes About Resilience

I got my own back.

Our house was destroyed in 1943, and I moved the family to a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps. This cottage was meant for a very few people, and at the end of the war, there were about 13 people in this very small house.

When I first had Isaac, I only owned a mattress. Now I have a show?

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life.

My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent their kid to Harvard, that don't have any money for retirement. Highs and lows of life.

The only business owners that fail are the ones who gave up.

When I took ownership on the defensive end, I made a commitment to myself to basically cancel out what was happening on the offensive end.

I went through a public divorce and wrote a project called '29' that really just is all about speaking your truth and owning the fact that we all go through things in life and it's all about what comes out of them.

Nobody is going to tell me Marshawn Lynch can't run. He's strong as an ox.

Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

When I was playing in IPL, mom dad both were COVID positive. Mom had a mild one but dad's one was serious as his oxygen count fell to 85.

I have been on the deathbed so many times and had to be given oxygen while training. I did not know if I would survive, but the roar of applause would lift me up.

You have to grow faster than the pace of your company.

I've never been renowned for electric pace. It doesn't seem to have held me back.

If the pace of change outside is moving more quickly than the pace of change inside, you get a bit left behind.

That's one thing that's been aimed at me since I was 17: a lack of pace.

If you go, go, go, you will get tired. So I had to learn to pace myself. I don't have a problem with five rounds now.

I can't stop, I always have to try and keep a good pace and that's what I'll do.

When you go to Australia you are always asked whether you can perform in hostile environments against high pace and every Australian side I have played against has had guys bowling over 90mph.

A dancer's career is short - you just keep going until your legs pack up.

It's very natural for me now. A lot of airplanes, a lot of flights, a lot of hotels. Go home to pack and leave. But I'm used to it.

When you aren't able to do what makes you dominant, what separates you from the pack, it can throw your mind off.