Quotes About Resilience

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

No one has the right to beat you.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

As long as i live i will have control over my being

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

Heart and mind overcome all.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.