I spent my 20s making film after film, often in very adverse conditions. You'd fly back from somewhere - Beirut, the Falklands, South Africa - on Saturday, and you'd have 24 hours to cut your film, and it would go out on Monday night.
Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.
I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.
At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.
My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.
Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
The stratosphere is a hostile place.
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
Most of my career was negative.
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
It's my job to be able to deal with adverse conditions as well as kick well in good conditions. I just look to prepare to go out to do well no matter what it is.
My mom was a single mother in the South Bronx living in adverse conditions. Seeing her struggles to get herself off of welfare and get back into the workplace and give me and my sister a better life - it's an inspiration for me.
The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.
I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.
What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.
These children are unfortunate rather than criminal. Their delinquency is not the product of nature but rather the cruel circumstances into which they were born.
The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing ... God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
I lived in a homeless shelter. That's what I mean when I say I've been in situations where people need help. I don't remember my exact age, but I remember there were two bunk beds and five of us in there: me, my three sisters and my mum.
Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.
