Alex Cox Quotes

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

I am getting better at facing the bouncers, as I know opposition tries to use those as a weapon against me. Yet, no one is perfect, and he takes time to master a particular thing.

Myself, I always tell people that if you're not getting better you're only getting worse, and every day I try and be better than yesterday.

If you can do your thing on a big stage, it helps, but then to do it against guys that are older than you still gives me confidence that all the hard work I'm putting in is really working and I just got to keep getting better.

It's nice to know you're improving and getting better.

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.