Quotes About Resilience

I've taken fights on short notice while injured to help save shows, and in return I've been taken care of.

It's in the nature of defence that you rarely notice it.

Guys go through concussions sometimes that aren't as noticeable. But they know - the player knows - and they want to go back in the game. You want to play.

I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.

Growing up without a dad and not having a father figure - I noticed a hole in my life. For the longest time, I would run away from my problems instead of confronting them. I felt empty at one point. Not depressed, but empty.

'Aiyyaa' flopped, but it got me noticed.

In corporate life, I have noticed, it is getting harder and harder to say that things are bad.

Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.

It's important not to get hung up on the notion that everyone who has an injury is trying to dodge it.

It's a Hollywood screenwriting notion that change comes because of one epic, soul-crushing event... What's more common is that the slow decay of the nonevents of your life build up until you can't take it anymore.

The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.

You see, my movie isn't about football, or about Notre Dame. It's about hope, about the human spirit.

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world.

For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

Mental health is not a novelty; it's part of who we are and we need to treat it as if it were a broken arm or any other kind of medical consideration.

It is obviously always nice to start in a strong way, but it's also very important to keep that strength during the year - the season is quite long, from March to November.

More than' is the tagline of the company LeBron and I started in November 2014 called Uninterrupted. 'More Than' is Uninterrupted's 'Just Do It' or 'Think Different.'

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.

Everyone has a bad day now and then.