Quotes About Resilience

In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

I'll never starve.

I used to starve myself to death.

I don't care if I starve.

I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself.

When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My father didn't say it to me, but he told my mom, 'No. I'm not going to allow that. He'll starve to death.' I grew up in a small town in Illinois where being an actor was not something people did.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving.

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.