#knocked

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going. ↗

— Alex O'Loughlin

#chest #cut #down #else #get

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#father #fury #griffin #his #knocked

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality. ↗

— Candace Parker

#back #back up #been #down #get

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?' ↗

— John Sayles

#door #had #here #i #i remember

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#barn #black #corner #eight #heard

I've been knocked down a lot of times. ↗

— James Brown

#down #i #knocked #lot #times

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing. ↗

— Roy Romer

#box #computer #ibm #knocked #know

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#away #because #fact #fears #feel

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#broad #business #create #down #get

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#any #back #back up #business #care