Quotes About Resilience

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.

We in America believe in starting over - and over and over.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

I can't tell you how many times I get into a taxicab in New York or Los Angeles, and I'm talking to somebody who is a recent immigrant who was a doctor or lawyer or engineer or professor in the country they just came from. They're starting over again in life, and I think the majority of people out there can relate to that.

Especially after the Chicks' success, it's hard to think of starting over.

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

I believe it is only when one comes out of adversity, that one starts to see real beauty.

The begonia is an amazing plant... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

My average day on 'Leverage' starts at 5 A. M. and ends 12 to 14 hours later. An hour drive to the set and back sometimes makes the day unbearably long. You have to grab a few minutes to yourself where you can.

If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.

Having my feet be as good as I want them to be can get me out of a lot of problems when I'm in the pocket and stuff starts to break down. There's rarely ever a perfect pocket.

At a startup, it's hard enough to get a single thing right, much less a whole bunch of things. Especially if the things you are trying to do are not only dissimilar but actively impede each other.

The reality of a startup is you have failures very often.

Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride.