Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality. ”

I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back. ”

I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back. ”

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting. ”

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities. ”

I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life. ”

I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand. ”

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. ”

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is. ”

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always. ”