Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game. ”

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man. ”

I don't think you are ever really done working on something, especially if you can get back into rehearsal. ”

In the back of my mind, when we were developing 'Next to Normal,' I always heard Alice Ripley. ”

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left. ”

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head. ”

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures. ”

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield. ”

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it. ”

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. ”