I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.
Our community system is completely broken down, and you need to build that back up again and make people feel that they can make a change in life and not just sit around playing video games or on their iPhones – that they can get out there and make a difference.
Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That’s just always been my mentality. I’m not really fazed by anything. It’s in the past. There’s nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.
The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face – and make sense of – their own existence.
My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.
You just gotta back up your words. Don’t be scared from it, or don’t shy from it.
During my stint in IT, I worked and used the free time to browse the net for research on cinema. In the evenings, I did theatre. Had I not been successful, I would have gone back to my IT job. It was my back up plan.
I not only went back to the ‘All Stars’ gig for myself but also for my fans. I wanted them to see the story of even if you get knocked down, you get back up, you keep going and you can win.
Sometimes you fall down, but you have to pick yourself back up.
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
I’ve always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I’ve ever known is to keep going.
I’m in boxing to be a champion and if I lose it brings me all the way back to the bottom, and I don’t want to keep crawling back up. I’m too old to be doing that, man.
If the publicly passed campaign finance laws had not been struck down by the Supreme Court, Club for Growth Action would be illegal, and Heritage Action wouldn’t have the SuperPAC threat to back up its small ad purchases.
And I can tell you that history will back up what I’m about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.
Love makes me vulnerable. In business I’m tough on myself – I’m like a drill sergeant. If I’m down, I’m used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can’t do that.
It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases – ‘sustainability,’ ‘the brand,’ etc. – about rugby.
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
I don’t know what other fighters do, but when I get hit and go down, I smile and I say, ‘I’m going to hit you harder than you hit me, and I’m going to knock you out.’ The times I go down and get back up – that’s when I’m the most dangerous.
Power doesn’t back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It’s not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and what they individually respond to.
With the coaches, you don’t want to hear everybody saying, ‘Move over! Back up! Do this!’ Let’s find out what the players know.
There are awful things that happen, dreams get crushed, you build yourself back up again, and then there are, hopefully, incredible partners in misery that say, ‘Let me help you. I’ve been there before.’
Some people get knocked down and they have a hard time getting back up. But when your mind is right and you have a goal and you’re trying to achieve that goal, nothing can deter you from that.
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.
I can fall on my face at times, but I get right back up, dust myself off, laugh, and keep it moving. I never take things or myself too seriously in my personal life.
Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‘You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.’ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
I remember my first Arsenal training session and Sol Campbell going straight through me. I had a bit of a bruise, but I got straight back up and carried on. I didn’t want to show them that it hurt.
You have to keep your eyes wide open and your head high and realize that you are going to be OK. I do this with work and with being a mom – I’m a true believer that it’s OK to fail, and that there is power in getting back up on the horse.
Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you’ve lost.
‘Life Changes’ is a song that we feel really connects to the spirit of our band and our fans. It’s got that positive vibe we always want to put out there, and the message – no matter how many times you get knocked down, always get back up – will forever be part of the GC story.
You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.
I lived in Bandra East, on the 12th floor. There was a small earthquake; I could feel the building shaking. I was halfway down the stairs when I realised I’d forgotten my laptop, and all my scripts were on it. If I lost the laptop, I’d lose all my work. I ran back up to get it!
I’ve gotten very used to falling off of things. It’s almost like that’s my skill! I’m great at falling down and getting back up.
You are one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. I have a tip for you: if you work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on, and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.
It’s awkward going back up to Edinburgh to see my old friends, because I’m not on the same wavelength.
They’ve pushed me down a big ravine, but I’ll get back up to the top.
Even if I do miss a shot, I’m going to be comfortable to get back up there and shoot the same shot again. Make or miss, I’m not going to be frustrated but move on to the next play.
If the Big Show lands on you when you’re on the ground, you’re not getting back up. He’ll pick you up like a sack of crap and toss you over the top rope.
I grew up riding horses and one of the most important things I learned was that when you fall off, you have to get right back up in the saddle.
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, ‘You know what? I’m giving up, I don’t care.’ And then you go to bed and you wake up and it’s a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
When the fight goes to the ground, it doesn’t take long until I finish it or come back up. Straus does that typical American game plan, that boring strategy with wrestling, taking you down and keeping you there, but this strategy won’t work with me.
Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you – one worm or Trojan is all it takes.
My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it’s a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month’s time, so it’s going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I’m good to go so far.
It’s tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.
