Quotes About Resilience

In football, if you have a big break after a disappointment you can stew on things, and that hurts you.

You have to be sort of an emotional steward to really get a business to do something hard - to take people up the hill, to conquer the mountain, to sack the city. You have got to be a maniac.

I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.

Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's positive, man - a dentist, a doctor. Just hang in there and never give up, and find out what is your talent. First you got to find your talent and just stick with your talent, and I guarantee you'll get there, man.

Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

You never get over losses. I've never gotten over one loss I've had in my career. They always stick with me.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

I talk a big game because I carry a big stick.

Some images stick with you forever, images that you can't unsee.

You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore.

If your game is to take everything on then you have to stick with that and if it's your game to get out of the way of the short ball then that's what you do.

If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think.

I feel like, with any show, the creator should stick to it the first few years and get it off the ground.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

When you stick to what you're doing, sometimes that road ain't as easy as the rest of them.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.