Quotes About Resilience

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

There exists no more difficult art than living.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

I may have stumbledand stammered at your unexpected push, but the breezeanchored me and I learnt the art of survival

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

No art is harder to master than believing in yourself.

The creative hopeless.