Adapting to New Challenges Quotes

The one thing that I will never forget, going forward, from my experience on Southland is that, as an artist and as a professional, I prepare so different, now that I've had that experience. And I've taken the preparation that we learned on Southland to other things, and it's just made me that much stronger.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.

A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.

People wonder why I chose to come to Bolton. There's a different pressure and mentality here to PSG, where we were expected to challenge at the top every year, but look at our squad - quality throughout.

You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.

What got you here won't get you there.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

I don't have a lot of experiences like this where every time I thought I had a good idea it was totally wrong. I had to give in completely and just try to make the movie Alejandro Amenábar was trying to make.

To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done.

Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

What I've never wanted to do was allow myself to be put in a box, so I've tried to do a lot of different things so this is a step in trying to do something different so we'll see how it goes. I'm under no illusions that this is slam-dunk. I did the best I could and that's all I can rely on.

It makes you a better player when you're around better competition. If you pay attention, you can learn something.

I would just say that I could share what served me, which was trying to find the best material that I could possibly find and make it better. When other celebrities and sports stars, or people that are successful in another area, cross over into movies, they're always encouraged to bring that same tenacity and that same relentless drive that you had to make it. You have to apply that to acting.

I don't like comfort zones. Having never had any drama training, I don't really have a technique, so I'm continually learning new things. I like being frightened, and always having to start from scratch.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter. I've always enjoyed the process and always enjoyed working more really than the end result of what it achieves. I'm more interested in doing the work.