Quotes About Resilience

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.

You can't deny somebody that's a hard worker. You can't deny somebody that just digs down as deep as they can.

Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Sometimes things don't work like they should.

I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.