Quotes about "Mental Health & Wellbeing"

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would. ”

Grit may carry risk because it's about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent. ”

There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture. ”

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. ”

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. ”

Think of energy almost like emotional electricity. It has a powerful way of uniting ordinary people, their connected spirit, to do extraordinary things. ”

There have been other players of a similar build and stature to myself - slim, if you like - who have come here and shown a physical resilience in the way that I hope to as well. ”

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer. ”

You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact. ”

You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing. ”