Quotes About Resilience

If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work."

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Some people are much like blisters-they don't show up until the work is done.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

You can always figure out how to deliver things in somewhat controlled situations, but when you start to get into the reality of the market you start to figure out what isn't going to work.

Hard work's a good distraction.

Great work is always shunned at first.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

Some people say,'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me.

The work doesn't begin until you get tired!

When people say no to me, I say, "Don't say no to me. There is a waywe can work this out."

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.