Noah Hawley Quotes

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

I bend but do not break.

Mike Brown is a big guy; he's very durable. He's extremely strong and very well-rounded.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

Resilience can go an awful long way.

My body is durable, my body is able to withstand a lot of practices, a lot of punishment.

I should be equipped to play in any condition.

I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.

I'm not made of glass.

Don't get married to the idea of something having to be one way.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

The Seventh can handle anything it meets.

Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.