Quotes About Resilient

Build: Bookworm, but tough

She'd told me an Empress could fashion wood into whatever shapes she liked; in my pocket was a wedding ring for Aric that I'd painstakingly crafted. I'd figured the band would need to be as resilient as metal, so I'd chosen one of the strongest trees in the world: lignum vitae. Latin for wood of life.

Scottish men are . . . hardy?

She wasn't the kind of girl who would come when called.

We want organizations to be adaptive, flexible, self-renewing, resilient, learning, intelligent—attributes found only in living systems. The tension of our times is that we want our organizations to behave as living systems, but we only know how to treat them as machines. —Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time

He wore a thin silk scarf—little more than a cravat—and a bowler, but he was famously, almost comically hardy. Dexter had never seen him sweat even wearing a dinner suit in dead summer. He'd a quick knifelike walk that required Dexter to stride in earnest to keep up, although he was several inches taller.

Iz a Trini. I strong.

modern infrastructure—for reliable power, clean water, fast transit, affordable food, and resilient structures—has done more to improve public health than any other modern intervention, including scientific medicine

We say we want kids to be joyful/unmaterialistic/resilient. That's what sailing kids are like. They climb masts & can correctly identify obscure plant life. They don't care what somebody looks like when they meet them, they sometimes don't even speak the same language, but they work it out. They don't sit around ranking one kind of life against another.

The British people have always been a practical breed.

I like to be easy-going but if someone wants me to be tough, I can put on that image as per the situation demands.

North Carolinians are determined, tough people.

I've always been competitive and determined. It's part of my personality.

In Louisiana, we are resilient, and we are determined to meet any challenge that comes our way.

Some of the friendliest, friendliest people you're going to meet are going to be in Detroit.

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.

The Protean Alternative I have stressed the pervasiveness and danger of cultism, but that does not mean it must dominate our future. We are capable of alternatives—even antidotes—that stem from the very structure of the human mind. One such alternative is what I call the protean self, a view of the self as always in process; as being many-sided rather than monolithic, and resilient rather than fixed.

At least Aielwomen did not walk around with their noses in the air, or think you should jump just because they said so. Of course, some of their games were on the rough side, and they did have the habit of trying to kill you now and again.

No point in crying when the iron split; you just reforged it.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

the news badly needs its audience to feel agitated, frightened and bothered a lot of the time – yet we have an even greater responsibility to try to remain resilient.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless

ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE aspects of Churchill's approach to leadership was his ability to switch tracks in an instant and focus earnestly on things that any other prime minister would have found trivial. Depending on one's perspective, this was either an endearing trait or a bedevilment.