Quotes About Resilience

I know, personally, people said a lot about what kind of defender I was. So I wanted to get better at it.

As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

When I lose, I take it very personally.

Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.

I have been in this league for a long time, and if you are not motivated on a daily basis, you won't be in this league long - that's players, coaches, that's personnel, that's everybody.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

I am one of the most attacked persons.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

People should be faced with losing everything a little bit more often because it really helps put a lot of things into perspective.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.

Companies lose some of their best employees when people are beaten down; then they overpromote junior people because they can't persuade outsiders to sign on.

In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

It is quite difficult at PSG because when you lose a game there is a lot of pessimism.

I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.