Quotes About Resilience

Life is like business. It's 20% what happens to you and 80% how you respond".

I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

We broke something, I think it was traction.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn't.

There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.

I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that's good for me; I'm good.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

I've wrecked my fair share of cars. I've had my fair share of injuries. If you put too much focus on it or you really worry about it, it's going to consume you. That's never good.

From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.