Quotes About Resilience

Women are generally more resistant to hunger, disease and fatigue than men.

Above all, if we want to combat terrorism effectively, we must realize that nothing the terrorists do can defeat us. We are the only ones who can defeat ourselves, if we overreact in a misguided way to their provocations.

nothing the terrorists do can defeat us. We are the only ones who can defeat ourselves, if we overreact in a misguided way to their provocations.

Cuanto más hemos trabajado para construir algo, más difícil es abandonarlo y hacer sitio a algo nuevo.

it is far from clear that billions of people would be able to repeatedly reinvent themselves without losing their mental balance.

Por desgracia, enseñar a los chicos a aceptar lo desconocido y a mantener su equilibrio mental es muchísimo más difícil que enseñarles una ecuación de física o las causas de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Los antiguos romanos estaban acostumbrados a ser derrotados. Al igual que los mandatarios de la mayor parte de los grandes imperios de la historia, podían perder batalla tras batalla pero aun así ganar la guerra.

In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products - you will above all need to reinvent yourself again and again.

In] the twenty-first century, you can hardly afford stability. If you try to hold on to some stable identity, job or world view, you risk being left behind as the world flies by you with a whooooosh. Given that life expectancy is likely to increase, you might subsequently have to spend many decades as a clueless fossil. To stay relevant - not just economically, but above all socially - you will need the ability to constantly learn and to reinvent yourself, certainly at a young age like fifty.

For thousands of years the answer to this question remained unchanged. The same three problems preoccupied the people of twentieth-century China, of medieval India and of ancient Egypt. Famine, plague and war were always at the top of the list.

modernity needs to work hard to ensure that neither human individuals nor the human collective will try to retire from the race, despite all the tension and chaos it creates.

Tal como lo planteaba Nietzsche, si uno tiene una razón por la que vivir, lo puede soportar casi todo.

To survive and flourish in such a world, you will need a lot of mental flexibility and great reserves of emotional balance. You will have to repeatedly let go of some of what you know best, and learn to feel at home with the unknown.

As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A

Clennon King, a black student who applied to the University of Mississippi in 1958, was forcefully committed to a mental asylum. The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi. The vicious circle: a chance historical situation is translated into a rigid social system.

Escaping the narrow definition of self might well become a necessary survival skill in the 21st century

If modernity has a motto, it is 'shit happens'.

Consider a resident of Berlin, born in 1900 and living to the ripe age of one hundred. She spent her childhood in the Hohenzollern Empire of Wilhelm II; her adult years in the Weimar Republic, the Nazi Third Reich and Communist East Germany; and she died a citizen of a democratic and reunified Germany. She had managed to be a part of five very different sociopolitical systems, though her DNA remained exactly the same.

Most important of all will be the ability to deal with change, learn new things, and preserve your mental balance in unfamiliar situations.

Un imperio que no puede aguantar un golpe y seguir de pie no es realmente un imperio.

Effort will lie but will never be in vain.

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

Blue Jones: Did you lose your fight,huh? Baby Doll: No, I just found it.