Quotes About Resilience

Growing up, all I learned was how best to diminish my own light for a partner.

Life wasn't good, but I could not walk away from something I love. I had a difficult life to face, but I had to try to keep dealing with the situation with the help of my family, friends, and training partners and manager.

There are awful things that happen, dreams get crushed, you build yourself back up again, and then there are, hopefully, incredible partners in misery that say, 'Let me help you. I've been there before.'

Little injuries are always happening, so you've just got to train through those. You've also got to have the right training partners, people you trust.

I've had to learn fast. I've kind of come up the hard way in this sport and just a sense of my training partners and my coaches and that's been something that I've been having to deal with since day one.

If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing.

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

Not being dead is my version of partying. So far, so good.

We're not partying out on the road, but we still have fun.

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You've just got to keep on grinding.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

I probably don't look healthy, but I have never got to the stage where I thought I was going to pass out.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.

After Diana passed, I did not believe for one second that I would remarry or that I would be in love again.