Quotes About Resilience

Louisiana 1927

Sound more mean than crazy," he said. "I don't know if I want to go

When the Levee Breaks," by Memphis Minnie. Memphis Minnie wrote this with her husband, Kansas Joe McCoy; it was later covered by Led Zepplin.

he loved about people—trouble brought out their grit, their creativity.

Dixie Clay knew now that the world was full of secret sorrowing women, each with her own doors closed to rooms she wouldn't be coming back to, walking and talking and cutting lard into flour and slicing fish from their spines and acting as if it were an acceptable thing, this living.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful ' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

Some of the best advice I ever received was "Man, that was terrible".

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

Time erodes both steel and stone.' So Ovid had written in the months before his death.

Even when they have been felled, let alone when they are still standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

That's the problem with running away, said the little voice. No matter where you go, you have to take yourself with you; and if yourself is constitutionally incapable of leaving well enough alone and not worrying if the rest of the world is weirder than ferret ragout, where the hell is the point?

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

How many no's am I willing to accept on my way to success?

The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct porption to the number of times I can fail and keep trying.

The number of times I succeed is directly proportional to the number of times I can fail, and keep trying !

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." ~ Colin Powell

However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea.

Their ultimate "strokes of genius" don't come about because they succeed more often than other people—they just do more, period.

In learning to Juggle, the angst comes from failure - from having the ball fall to the floor. So with step one, numb aspiring jugglers to that. Having the ball fall to the floor becomes more normal than the ball not falling to the floor.

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.