Resilient Quotes - Page 6

• We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Adventure, Pride, Rocks

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.18, Penguin

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• Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.

  Robert Frenay

  Nature, Ecosystems, Fire

  Robert Frenay (2006). “Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things”, p.32, Macmillan

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• When youre doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do whats expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

  Dick Costolo

  Doing What You Love, Next, Roles

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• It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

  Miranda Richardson

  Different, Feels, Different Things

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• The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

  John Banville

  Novelists, Novel

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• I'm very resilient. The only thing I'm missing right now are abs.

  Artie Lange

  Missing, Right Now

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• As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

  Sylvia Earle

  Attitude, Children, Ocean

  "Earth Has a Heart — It’s Blue" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

  Timothy Geithner

  Past, Stronger, Shock Absorber

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• What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

  Gary Hamel

  Our World, Church, Internet

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• I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

  Elton John

  Bunnies

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• I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.

  Scott Simon

  Art, Pedants, Magazines

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Humble, People, Ambitious

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• My best quality is that I'm a big hearted person. I'm resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty of that to an extent. Everyone should be, I think - you need to respect yourself.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Thinking, Quality, Selfishness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Strong, Lying

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 23 January 2007

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• Shane Mosley is a dangerous fighter. He is bigger than Manny, strong and he still has his speed. He has never been stopped. He can take anyone's best punch and come back as strong as ever. He's so resilient. You can't hurt him.

  Bob Arum

  Strong, Hurt, Fighter

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• We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.

  Andrew Revkin

  Doubt, Mind, Way

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• Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

  Reshma Saujani

  Confidence, Stay Strong, Believe

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Dad, Real, Age

  "INTERVIEW: Streetcar Star Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe Are a Couple of Smart Actors". Interview with Brian Scott Lipton, www.theatermania.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Children, Optimistic, Light

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• I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.

  Henry Paulson

  Strong, Financial, Investment

  "Commentary: White House caught napping on financial crisis" by Campbell Brown, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

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• Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, People, Use

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I'm always encouraging my fans to be resilient lovers and fighters simultaneously.

  Darren Fletcher

  Fans, Lovers, Fighter

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world." That's not me. That's not my job.

  J.H. Wyman

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: collider.com

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• I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's Judy Garland or Norma Desmond, there is this tragic quality to older women that one can revel in, and you want it to be more three-dimensional than that. So it was important for the character to be strong and resilient, because there are so many victims in opera.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Strong, Character, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

  Brian Greene

  Religious, Believe, Political

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