Quotes About Resilience

The ability to rapidly shift the focus of one's efforts is a key element in how a smaller force defeats a larger, since it enables the smaller force to create and exploit opportunities before the larger force can marshal reinforcements. Lind notes, and this is especially relevant to business,

Futurist James Ogilvy simply denounced managing through goal setting as "bunk." Instead, he recommends that: Organizations should tread near the edge of the future, making it up as they go along, with as much sensitivity, awareness, knowledge, compassion, feeling, and beauty as they can muster.139

Honest to Jeez, Loafer, if your skin got any thinner, your guts'd pop out and dance a hula.

I think I'll pull through. And if I don't…do me a favor and bury me in the forest. That's romantic. Funerals are a maximum pain in the ass.

We can't turn our backs on this." "I know we can't. It's following us.

But Mom was the craziest. The gun had really sent her into outer space. After finding it, she'd beaten him with a wooden spoon—so hard that he couldn't sit down the rest of the day, only lie on his stomach in bed.

The worst thing that happens is there's an earthquake and we all get sucked into a river of molten lava." "Well …" Ruth said. "That won't hurt much.

An ordinary Haitian mule, it was said, would serve you faithfully for ten years just for the chance to kick your brains in

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

Crap happens in life. It could happen tonight.

Don't quit. It will happen one day.

Sometimes, when nobody is by your side, you have to become your own cheering squad.

By living on our own terms. By being rats, not mice, work together and beat the system. I will not give up my friends for this system. In fact, my friendships will beat the system.

A bad boss is like a disease of the soul.

When you lose something, don't think of it as a loss. Accept it as a gift that gets you on the path you were meant to travel on"

There you go. I've told you the four thunderstorms—disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon, they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die. I

I can't let someone I just met get the better of me, I thought, shaking my head. I switched off the lights and lay down. I had to catch an early-morning flight to Mumbai the next day and had a four-hour window of sleep. I couldn't wait to reach home. However

I have a problem in life, uncle. I have always found it hard to "just move on".

Frustration is a sign that somewhere you took things too seriously. Unfairness

We must always suggest a way out, however simplistic it may be. It is a more positive attitude towards life.

Girls have no idea how much it hurts when our love is rejected. Yet, men are expected to keep trying and take hits all the time.

Hunger or tasteless food, hostel life is about whatever is easier to deal with

She knew she couldn't escape unscathed, and the trauma would take her a long time to get past. And she might never fully heal mentally. There was no denying the fact, though, that everything had changed for her. To know what to expect wasn't the same as actually living it.

A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished, no matter how brave its warriors or how strong their weapons.