Hannah Bronfman Quotes

Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

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.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

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

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

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.

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

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.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't hear the word 'no' - I hear 'find another way to get what you want.'

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.