Quotes About Resilience

There is always the need to carry on.

As an athlete, the body can fail you. I know. The mind and your education will be there to keep carrying you.

I lived in New York from 1989 to 1996, and I feel like I just got used to carrying everything around.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

In football there for a long time, I knew even if it was a bad day, a bad day at the office, it was still going to be really good in most cases.

After 'Ra.One,' 'Cash,' 'Tum Bin 2' did not work, I almost lost my confidence as a director.

I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.

I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.

For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

Whenever I get no callbacks from the casting people, I will try for the next one.

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.

I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.

The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.

Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.

I'm just the same as anybody else now. To get TB again, I'd have to go out and catch a whole new case of it. Let's forget about it. I'm a ballplayer.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

I always felt that I was, you know, smart. I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had... It was tough for me to catch up.

I think when you lose the fight, it's not the end of the world. You can keep training and catch up and try again better, you know?

I took a couple footballs to the face before I learned to catch.

Every night before going to bed, I think about Vizag. But once you wake up, you have to catch up with life.

That's the key thing I learned from making 'The East': It doesn't matter what happens in your life, good or bad. What matters is that there's a group around you to catch you when you fall and push you back up a little bit.

Like, I played baseball with all boys. They didn't want to play catch with me. I mean, it's the story of everything I've done.

People put you into a category and if you don't fight it you're stuck there for the rest of your life.

I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!