Quotes About Resilience

We have our detractors. If we didn't, that would be weird. That would make me feel, 'Oh God, we must be really bland.' You have to have detractors.

The minute I think 'Oh God, I don't want to do this because I'm scared,' is the moment I have to do something, whatever it is.

There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she's 21, she's totally flailing. Your story gives me hope.' I put my mom through that.

When 9/11 happened, it affected everything. It affected me. I'm an American, and I'm like, 'Oh my God, this is evil. This is terrible.'

I can't constantly live in the past, thinking that 'Oh my God, I was Miss Universe.'

You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

I'm a kid from Ohio in an industry that drives people insane.

When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.

I got criticized at Ohio State, and my boss took up for me. I got criticized at Iowa State at times, and my boss took up for me.

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

I love that I can demonstrate that it's OK to look and be strong.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

I want to make it so that it's OK to not be OK.

I've come to terms with the fact that if you're on TV, lots of people like you and lots of people hate you, and once you're OK with that, you apply it to everything.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

I'm from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I'm OK.

People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'