We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.
Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.
I don't like to lose-at anything. . . Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.
People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.
You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.
Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.
Setbacks help you to concentrate.
You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.
Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.
Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault.
You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.
I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn't good, nobody said, 'Come here, baby, we're going to make you a star. ' Early on, when I'd say, 'Can I do some anchoring?' people would look at me like I was crazy.
You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done.
