Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.