Goldust Quotes

I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

When you get down, your game plan changes a lot and what you're trying to do is eliminated.

Pitchers made an adjustment to me. It's up to me to come up with an answer.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.

But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

I am used to changing tactics to adapt to the climate.

Power shifts your thinking from what is right and wrong to what is necessary

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

Meet the challenges of the time.

A leader has to find opportunities in any environment.