Quotes About Resilience

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

Innovations never happen as planned.

My story is how to have a life while dealing with mental illness, and I've had a life. I've been blessed. It's been a different kind of life than what I planned on, but it's been a good life nonetheless.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.

If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn't fall.

We've all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It's a normal feeling when things don't go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it's challenging to think of yourself as a successful individual.

I have planned my whole future, my whole life. And nine out of 10 times, it never happens the way you want or plan or think it's going to happen.

Just because something that you wanted your whole life didn't quite work out as you planned it to - a lot of the times it's not supposed to work out how you want it to - it will grow you as a person and make you better.

I'm a competitor. Any time you work hard and you envision something a certain way and it's not going as you planned and you see it, you know, you go back to the drawing board and you figure it out.

I have never planned anything. I will take things as they come.

People have seen me fighting everything from 'Fast and Furious' to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others.

I'm a plodder, not a planner.

I am actually a big planner, but I have learnt to take it easy.

From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.

I have never had any success in planning my life, really.

I used to plan a lot. I have stopped planning after 'Mahadev.'

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

In any case, I am not a great one to make plans for the future.

Everybody has to take curveballs as they come in life and hopefully have the ability to adjust their plans.

Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

I am not someone who will cancel plans because of personal danger, because I'm really not afraid.