Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. ”

I can't run anymore. That's the one thing I loved doing. And I can't play golf hardly at all because of wrist and back pain. ”

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there. ”

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back. ”

If I moved back, my mother would love for me to move in because she absolutely loves her boys. 12 boys. She showers all of us. Would be no problem. She would love to have us back in the house. ”

I put ordinary people in jeopardy and give them the opportunity to be heroic. Then there's a great payoff for the reader at the end, when the heroic character gets what he or she deserves. Readers will come back again and again if they feel satisfied at the end. ”

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books. ”

I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards. ”

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set. ”

Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It's a strong arts community across the board. ”