Quotes About Resilience

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

I believe only in art and failure.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.