Maria Konnikova Quotes

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.

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'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

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.

I get over things really quickly, and I feel like in this business, you have to be like that.

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

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

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.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

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.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.