I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
There’s a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what’s wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.
I just want to say real quick, whatever kind of problems you’ve been going through, maybe you’re having a hard time at work, maybe you’re having a hard time with your family, whatever it might be, you can overcome that. You just have to keep your hope up.
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
I think it’s my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.
I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.
I’ve always been able to overcome things, and to this day, it still bugs me that I couldn’t overcome a ball to the face. But I think things worked out for the best.
Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn’t conquer it.
In a time when consumers desperately want to trust businesses – but they just don’t – influencer marketing is one way to overcome this problem.
If you really want change, no one else is going to make that for you. It’s all mental at first. Once you overcome that mental part, your body can do anything.
You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That’s usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.
When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don’t hesitate to change, but don’t change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.
Everybody has barriers to overcome, some more than others. I don’t want to act like I’m all that unique. America’s full of stories like mine. This is a special country with enormous opportunity for those who don’t quit.
What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
‘Adapt and overcome’ is my new motto.
For me, it’s not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It’s interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It’s about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it.
The Passover story is a reminder that our unity is our strength, and that there is nothing we cannot overcome, together.
Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges – and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
If you have a setback, and you’re not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
People said ‘Mimi doesn’t know how to act and her diction is bad,’ but my perseverance helped me overcome my shortcomings and here I am today.
Often, we have only focused on what we’ve done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don’t focus on where we’ve come from and how we’ve overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.
I have overcome most of my fears.
Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.
I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.
All I can do is seek the information that’ll make me stronger, that’ll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that’s something you never think about. You don’t think about other people.
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.
Motorsport gave me a purpose. It gave me a reason to overcome my condition.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
That may be the ultimate definition of toughness inside the squared circle – having the will to overcome a serious injury to return to elite status as a main eventer.
The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it’s the parts you don’t often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.
The biggest thing I’ve had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind… I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.
