Quotes About Resilience

Josie, like Gretchen, isn't afraid of blood. What woman would be?

You should not think too much on things that do not work in your life, this can affect the gears of the things that work.

Turbulence breaks a tree's branches, but only tickles an eagle's wings.

I don't talk about having cancer in my standup anymore. I don't have cancer. But if it comes up for me again, that I'm going through something, I'm going to talk about it. I'm going to do whatever feels right whenever it feels right.

I chose Stanford for Stanford and not for the coach. I was going to Stanford regardless.

Hoover himself had risen from the most modest means of any president since Abraham Lincoln. Orphaned as a small boy, he worked his way through Stanford's 'pioneer' class - the first freshmen at Stanford. He started his mining career in hard labor.

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

I want the opportunity to play for a Stanley Cup, but I want to be able continue living life normally.

I don't always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I'm a rock star at being human.

You can't keep a star from shining and my star's going to shine bright.

Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under.

If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.

Listen, my dad left me, my mom is crazy, I'm from L.A., a pop star dumped me three times and I'm an actress who gets rejected constantly.

I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

I am a single mom of three girls, and I'm getting through that. If I can get through that, I can direct a whole season of television that I star in.

I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.

I was very surprised when I watched 'Star Wars,' and I thought, 'Oh, that's me. I've been blown up.' Then, I came back again. I really didn't know what was happening!

Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.

I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

This stardust won't settle, because none of us should settle.

I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad's an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right.