Quotes About Resilience

The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass.

Oakland's got a lot of character.

Oakland kids are always the best.

They've had a hard life, the Oasis brothers. They've done really well to be semi-normal. It's always sad when your dirty linen is brought out in public.

I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too.

I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

The object is to hit the other guy and not get hit. I think the least amount of damage you can take is the best route.

Problems and issues will always be there, and they'll never leave our side, so the object is to have a good time and make fun out of whatever we do.

I learnt a lesson that you mustn't worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

I want to be known as a guy who breaks tackles; that's the whole objective of the game.

As quickly as you can go 4-1, you can go 1-4. And the whole objective is not to get too high and not to get too low. It's one thing to tell somebody that and explain it, but it's another thing to really buy in, to have felt that and understand what it means to stay even-keel. That's what you have to be in this league.

When I left Tottenham for China i knew I would be further away but my main objective was to play because I wasn't playing and I decided to move on.

Being a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, I have the obligation to always defend myself well on the ground.

If you burn out you aren't doing your customers or your investors or your employees any favors. You need to create a situation inside your company where you are going to be retained for a long time. I think that's your obligation if you're good.

I've always hated to lose and I continue to hate it. But I've been obliged to accept it because I also have had some crushing defeats.

Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

Personally, I was oblivious to any financial hardships that my parents endured.

We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.