You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find that balance.
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.
There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.
I had a grandmother who was really strong, who doted on me, who wanted to make sure that I didn't go off the beaten path, although I did.
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.
I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.
If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it's okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.
When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.
Now I have normal-person fears - fears of failure, of not being smart enough or strong enough or kind enough.
You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
When I was growing up, officers in uniform were very impressive to me. They were doing a job. They were protecting our country; they were heroes. When you wear an old military jacket, there's some sort of connection to those qualities - to being strong, to being tough, to being a warrior.
I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.
My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.
