Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. ”

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ”

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ”

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned. ”

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back. ”

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place. ”

I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me. ”

I got dumped off 'The Iron Lady' a month before they started shooting, and then they brought two new writers on. Then I was brought back on again. I'm just a bit of a rubber ball. I just bounce back. ”

I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now. ”

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back. ”