Quotes About Resilience

What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years. And that doggedness depends on emotional traits—enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks—above all else. The

team building and adapting to change.

academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life's vicissitudes bring.

What makes the difference between stars and the others is not their academic IQ, but their emotional IQ. They are better able to motivate themselves.

managing feelings so

If you want to make a real difference for psychiatric illness like depression, you have to do something before the kids get sick in the first place," Kovacs commented. "The real solution is a psychological inoculation." EATING

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong."24 FLOW:

Es la combinación entre el talento razonable y la capacidad de perseverar ante el fracaso lo que conduce al éxito.

A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers—but always come through whole. In this sense, play can be therapeutic. In play everything that goes on gets suspended in an "as if" reality.

That capacity, for example, allows a teen who feels pressured by his friends to take drugs to tell them "No," and still keep them as friends. Students tend to

the difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.

A sobrecarga cognitiva crónica que caracteriza tantas das nossas vidas parece diminuir o nosso nível de domínio de nós mesmos. Quanto maiores as exigências sobre a nossa atenção, ao que parece, mais fracos somos a resistir às tentações.

The story of Pi is the story of all of us. We all have tigers under our tarpaulins - tigers that, we feel, could destroy us. We think we want to be rid of our tigers. But the truth is, we would feel a great loss if they ran away, because ultimately, each tiger is part of us.

Like all buses, it comes when it comes. You can wait with frustations, angers or feeling of victimhoods or you can wait with patience and relaxation, either way, it won't make the bus come any way faster

the wall is there to teach us.

children who are praised for "being smart" often believe that every encounter is a test of whether they really are. So to avoid looking dumb, they resist new challenges and choose the easiest path. By contrast, kids who understand that effort and hard work lead to mastery and growth are more willing to take on new, difficult tasks.

change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with it.

everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we'd lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

Treat reluctance like seasickness, Errol said, picking something off his sleeve. If you feel it, focus on the horizon.

All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all.

Allison decided it was okay sort of like if you're in a car and it topples off a hill you decide it's okay to fall, too.

Gwen didn't have to ask about the Fall. It happened to all old people, the Fall. They fell and then everything changed[...]They fell and never quite got up again.

It is natural, this heartbreak which arrives first when you are young and never leaves your house no matter where you move, but still everyone wants the kid to stop the fussing and shut up.