Resilience Quotes - Page 6

• But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving

  Douglas Adams

  Nature, Limits, Driving

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.204, Ballantine Books

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• The future of Cuba is one earned by a country that has resisted for over 50 years against the most powerful empire on Earth. The resilience of its people made this triumph materialize.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Powerful, Years

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

  Bill Mollison

  Agriculture, Order, Ecosystems

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• Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

  Janet Yellen

  Summer, Couple, California

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• I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

  Hillary Clinton

  Stamina

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• My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Childhood, Littles, Surprise

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• When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Stress, Under Stress, You Choose

  "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.

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• I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they had a resilience and an integrity that may be somewhat deficient in my own generation, and in subsequent generations as well, because America has been rather easy to live in since the Depression.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Integrity, Thinking, America

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• No, I’ve always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it’s demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.

  Dick Cheney

  Blow, Thinking, Years

  "My Interview with Dick Cheney". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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• People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will still be alive, and so will that great need and resource of ours called love.

  Dale Jamieson

  Loss, People, Mourning

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

  Jennifer Egan

  Selfish, Believe, Passionate

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• When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

  Andrew Solomon

  Law, People, Church

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f

  Gary Hamel

  Becoming, Paradox, Embrace

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• I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Humility, Pride, People

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• And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ? a shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Responsibility, Egypt, Strenght

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.326, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible.

  Arianna Huffington

  Daughter, Fear, Overcoming

  'On Becoming Fearless,' by Arianna Huffington, abcnews.go.com. September 13, 2006.

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• September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Air, Mushrooms, Different

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1102, Delphi Classics

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• Combating climate change is absolutely critical to the future of our company,Green Cooler customers, consumers-and our world. I believe all of us need to take action now. PepsiCo has already taken actions in our operations and throughout our supply chain to 'future- proof' our company-all of which deliver real cost savings, mitigate risk, protect our license to operate, and create resilience in our supply chain.

  Indra Nooyi

  Real, Believe, Taken

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• My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

  Mike Leigh

  Selfish, Acting, Narcissistic

  "Mike Leigh: 'Creativity is a life-blood for people'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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• Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.

  Claudia Rankine

  Memories, Stupid, Optimistic

  Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

  Sylvia Earle

  Loss, Coral Reefs, Temperature

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• A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Men, Climate, Building

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• I was never a cheerleader, but one of my very close friends was, and she is the one that taught me to do my first cartwheel. I always thought they were so talented and focused, and now that I've had the honor to walk in their shoes for a moment, my respect for their flexibility, skill, and resilience has increased tremendously.

  Heather Hemmens

  Skills, Shoes, Honor

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. People lost everything - family, friends. The rich culture of Cambodia was nearly extinguished. They are a nation of survivors. And while poverty and infant mortality affect a disproportionate amount of the people there, those I met were hopeful for the future and doing the best they can with
  what they had.

  Joy Bryant

  Country, People, Hopeful

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Men, Intelligent, Land

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