Resilient Quotes - Page 7

• Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.

  Phillip Adams

  Home, Effort, Tree

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• The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

  Colin Thubron

  Writing, Needs, Tough

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• Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

  Ross Douthat

  People, Christianity, Robust

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It's when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.

  Dar Williams

  Fun, Unique, Cities

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.

  Ida Rolf

  Cost, Able, Problem

  Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D. (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.83, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• As accurately as I possibly can. I explain , to my kid, that love's an elusive, fragile and resilient thing. And as far as the lyrics, I say that part of being an adult is being sexual, and when you're in a relationship, to express yourself that way is a beautiful thing.

  Eric Benet

  Beautiful, Kids, Express Yourself

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• A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

  Nick Rahall

  Equality, Law, People

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• We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."

  Dale Jamieson

  Moving, Animal, Agriculture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

  Atom Egoyan

  Grief, People, Choices

  "Writer/Director Atom Egoyan Talks THE CAPTIVE, His Writing Process, the Non-Linear Narrative, Dark Material, REMEMBER, and More". collider.com. December 10, 2014.

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• No one had ever made it big from my town until I was able to make it to the NFL and now the big screen. The journey from my town to where I am now has taught me how to be resilient and fearless, and for that I will forever be grateful.

  Thomas Jones

  Grateful, Journey, Nfl

  "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The Taliban is resilient.

  Leon Panetta

  Taliban

  National Press Club Speech and Q&A on Military Future, delivered 18 December 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

  Dave Matthews

  Men, Thinking, Too Much

  "Q&A with Dave Matthews ahead of his 'concert and conversation' with the Dalai Lama". Interview with Marian Liu, www.seattletimes.com. April 11, 2008.

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• Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Heart, Mean, Flames

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• How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.

  Galen Beckett

  Joy, Mind, Return

  Galen Beckett (2012). “The Master of Heathcrest Hall”, p.35, Spectra

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• Bridget [Jones] was always, at heart, about the gap between how you feel you're expected to be and how you actually are and that gap has only widened. Young people now are entering an uncharted sea, where there's huge pressure to judge yourself on how many Likes or Followers you get on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, rather than the on important things like being kind, honest, resilient, funny and a good friend.

  Helen Fielding

  Heart, Good Friend, Sea

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

  Eric Schlosser

  Thinking, Birth, Depressive

  "Food fight". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2006.

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• With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.

  Howard Schultz

  Strong, Opportunity, Class

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• All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

  David Suzuki

  Hours, Great Outdoors, Made

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• [T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.

  Lorrie Moore

  Rain, Dust, Civilization

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• You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.

  Laura Fraser

  Being Yourself, Falling In Love, Dark

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• If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

  Wendell Berry

  Yield, People, Generosity

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• The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

  Seth Godin

  Passion, Confusion, Choices

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• You have to be resilient.

  Gabrielle Union

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• mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

  Joseph Heller

  Atrocities, Tomorrow, Week

  1988 Picture This, ch.37.

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• The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Honesty, Emotional, Quality

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