Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

I think I compose as a listener: improvising and listening back excites me because I get to ideas that never would have occurred. Then I bring in the computers and samplers... and I begin to loop and process and change them. ”

The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of 'Mary Poppins' was impossible to ignore. The fact that it could provide emotional content in relief of the struggles that the Sherman brothers and Walt Disney endured was reason enough to take on the challenge. ”

In 'Saving Mr. Banks,' the challenge was just transitions. Time transitions from 1961 to 1906; how do you follow a character in one environment to another? And sometimes these transitions were quick, so how do you do that? ”

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble. ”

In the centre, you play more with your back to the opponent's goal and have to move into the gaps. ”

You cannot plan for the Champions League: the competitors are always overwhelming. It is a big new challenge every year. ”

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined. ”

In eighth grade, when I was just the school weirdo, my drama teacher put me in a play, and we came up with a few comedy bits. And that very first reaction, for an audience of supportive middle schoolers, I put my head out and pretended I got scared by the audience, and ducked back in. They all went: 'Yeah! That's great!' ”

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us. ”

All the ranchers I know have had back surgery, operations on their rotator cuffs. They all have new knees. I'd like to think I belong to that breed, but I don't. ”