Laura Kightlinger Quotes

Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

I never quit. I just got fired.

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.

When my record company rejected 'Full Moon Fever', I was hurt so bad. I was pretty far along in my career at that point. I'd never had anything rejected; I'd never really even had a comment. So when that happened, it was really just a board to the forehead. But then, finally, I picked myself up.

Everybody who's been fired has heard before about the problems they have. They just don't know it's that serious. Once you know what the stakes are, you become more serious.

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.

I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.

There have been times where I lost a job or whatever, and I think, "Okay, well that's just not part of my lane."

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.