Quotes About Resilience

Loss of resilience can come as a surprise, because the system usually is paying much more attention to its play than to its playing space.

There always will be limits to growth. They can be self-imposed. If they aren't, they will be system-imposed.

Resilience, self-organization, and hierarchy are three of the reasons dynamic systems can work so well.

A diverse system with multiple pathways and redundancies is more stable and less vulnerable to external shock than a uniform system with little diversity.

A diverse system with multiple pathways and redundancies is more stable and less vulnerable to external shock than a uniform system with little diversity. — Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

Like resilience, self-organization is often sacrificed for purposes of short-term productivity and stability. Productivity and stability are the usual excuses for turning creative human beings into mechanical adjuncts to production processes. Or for narrowing the genetic variability of crop plants. Or for establishing bureaucracies and theories of knowledge that treat people as if they were only numbers. Self-organization

Resilience is a measure of a system's ability to survive and persist within a variable environment. The opposite of resilience is brittleness or rigidity.

Hierarchies are brilliant systems inventions, not only because they give a system stability and resilience, but also because they reduce the amount of information that any part of the system has to keep track of.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon.

Wear pink!' her mother had said. 'It confuses the enemy.

Wear pink. It confuses the enemy.

It takes a man a while to get his head around the fact that"—she pinched her lips in thought, then nodded—"love makes you stronger, not weaker." She turned to her big brother. "Is that right, Simon?" "Yes, that's right.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Interesting things happen when we give up struggling with a situation or problem outside of our control.

When we cease to identify ourselves with things outside our control and when we cease to wrongly attribute our success or failure to these things, we are well on the way to finding a place of inner ease that no one and no thing can take away from us.

You are already tearing my heart in two. What difference would more pain matter?" "If

Never deny your scars. Wear them proudly for they attest to your immense courage and strength.

Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?

Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because that's what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.

The girl I am now, this girl--she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.

I guess you could say my mind was injured and that's why I didn't play.

There were just little things and they still made me sad, but I become better at staying in my sadness and at resisting the urge to chase it away.