Quotes About Resilience

I do think that creating the right foundation for your culture allows you to make changes as you need to make changes.

The goal is to understand how this period can be extended for as long as possible while simultaneously being mindful that it will eventually erode.

In a transient-advantage context, unlike a conventional one, disengaging is not confused with business failure.

Moving from advantage to advantage is seen as quite normal, not exceptional. Clinging to older advantages is seen as potentially dangerous.

You have nothing to fear in life, not you, not anyone, because every bad thing you think can happen will- but not always in the form you imagine

At least Jennifer was beyond being tormented by itchy dresses.

Conscripts or not, oppressed or free, honey, the conspiracy of the living is to help one another carry on.

I don't panic when I get lost. I just change where I want to go.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining, is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh! Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of Hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes! The danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing! A-aa-aaa-aaaah!

She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another. A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy.

Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel gevaarlijker is dan een rotjongen. Bovendien zijn ze veel moeilijker klein te krijgen. Een rotmeisje te grazen nemen is als achter een bromvlieg aan zitten. Je mept erop en het gore kreng is alweer weg. Rotmormeld, die meisjes.

She believed she could so she did.

What did she do to you? Matilda asked. I don't want to talk about it, Miss Honey said. It's too horrible. But surely you could have complained to somebody? Matilda said. To whom? Miss Honey said. And anyway, I was far too terrified to complain. I told you, I was her slave. Did she beat you? Let's not go into details, Miss Honey said.

Never in a month of Mondays.

The nastier the dream, the angrier it is getting when it is in prison,' the BFG said.

Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush--climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away.

The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper.

The Trunchbull" is no match for Matilda!

When she marched—Miss Trunchbull never walked, she always marched like a storm-trooper with long strides and arms aswinging—when she marched along a corridor you could actually hear her snorting as she went, and if a group of children happened to be in her path, she ploughed right on through them like a tank, with small people bouncing off her to left and right.