Kevin Powers Quotes

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

A little to our astonishment we find that we are still here and that we can still eat and sleep and work and smile. We can deal with an open crisis; we could not fight a shadow.

Human beings will make the best out of any situation.

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.

You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.

You're going to go through ups; you're going to go through downs. But staying steady is most important, and being able to bounce back is also very important.

If my one hand stops working, I won't stop living my life. I will start using my other hand. Similarly, if one part of my life goes wrong, I won't stop leading my life.

You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.