Quotes About Resilience

Make a virtue of necessity.

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.

Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill

Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.

Change is inevitable--except from a vending machine.

If a change to the requirements breaks your architecture, then your architecture sucks.

Good software designs accommodate change without huge investments and rework. When we use code that is out of our control, special care must be taken to protect our investment and make sure future change is not too costly.

How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship.

So now we enter the Death March Phase of the project. Customers are angry. Stakeholders are angry. The pressure mounts. Overtime soars. People quit. It's hell.

Don't depend on volatile things. GUIs are volatile.

One of these days, one of these years, the tree will fall, and when it does, if I am still alive, I will fall with it.

Between 1902 and 1913, according to his official biography, he was arrested eight times, was sent into exile seven times, and escaped from exile six times.[156] The exile from which he did not escape was the one to which he was sentenced in 1913 and from which he was freed by the February Revolution of 1917.

He soon recovered sufficiently to resume work, but suffered further strokes on December 13 and 22, after which he had to submit to a regime of greatly reduced activity.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

An almost infinite diversity of structures compete against the environment.

You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

Part of waging war is knowing when you're outgunned.

As I live I must die daily My old nature I must kill

Since you are on your own, it is up to you to foresee the changes going on right now in your profession. You must adapt your Life's Task to these circumstances. You do not hold on to past ways of doing things, because that will ensure you will fall behind and suffer for it. You are flexible and always looking to adapt. If change is forced upon you, you must resist the temptation to overreact or feel sorry for yourself.

Years later, a Japanese visitor tried to apologize to Mao for his country's invasion of China. Mao interrupted, "Should I not thank you instead?" Without a worthy opponent, he explained, a man or group cannot grow stronger.

Leave martyrdom alone: The pendulum will swing back your way eventually, and you should stay alive to see it.