Quotes About Resilience

Jobs's pep talk could have been

himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance

Alto: "She's a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I've ever met. It's like payback.

Jobs was often bullied, and in the middle of seventh grade he gave his parents an ultimatum. "I insisted they put me in a different school

The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win

Grove's mantra was "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." Noyce and Moore may not have been paranoid, but they were never complacent.

There's no way we're slipping!

Twiggy being made. More than half were rejected. Jobs erupted. With his face flushed, he began shouting and sputtering about firing everyone who worked there. Bob Belleville, the head of the Mac engineering team, gently

The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost

One of the engineers told Atkinson that there was no way to build such a mouse commercially. After Atkinson complained to Jobs over dinner, he arrived at the office the next day to discover that Jobs had fired the engineer. When his replacement met Atkinson, his first words were, "I can build the mouse.

Just as bacteria have spent millennia evolving ways to develop immunity to viruses, perhaps we humans should use our ingenuity to do the same.

Stoop, young man, stoop—as you go through this world—and you'll miss many hard thumps.

I don't think that I would be me if I didn't have sickle cell.

At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.

Pauli Murray perfected two characteristics of leadership: indomitable persistence and relentless self-invention.

El distintivo de una empresa innovadora no es solo ser la primera en tener nuevas ideas, también es saber cómo dar un salto al frente cuando se encuentra rezagada.

To distress is to weaken, and weakening the children weakens the whole family.

The ideas that come from me and my team would have been completely irrelevant, nowhere, if Steve hadn't been here to push us, work with us, and drive through all the resistance to turn our ideas into products.

And man is capable of standing superhuman suffering if only he feels sure that there is some point and purpose to it, while much less pain will seem intolerable of devoid of meaning.

Those who have never faced disease and suffering have no need of producing beauty

Our faith was a flickering flame.

Reliving his degradation had struck some spark in him and it was glowing now like a blown-on coal.

To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. Miniver, little ships, The Snow Goose, escape by sea. To the French, it suggests bitter defeat; to the Germans, opportunity forever lost.

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is, are you on top of that trouble or not?