Quotes of: Resilience Keyword

Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing ...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

ALL HE COULD SEE, IN EVERY DIRECTION, WAS WATER. It was June 23, 1943. Somewhere on the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Army Air Forces bombardier and Olympic runner Louie Zamperini lay across a small raft, drifting westward. Slumped alongside ...

Unbroken: A World War II Book of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Louie was furious at the sharks. He had thought that they had an understanding:The men would stay out of the sharks' turf - the water - and the sharks would stay off of theirs - the raft. That the sharks had taken shots at him when he had gone overbo...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'

Paul Tonko

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Ralph Bakshi

Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

UNDAUNTED PURSUIT Success, however measured, is the seat of a stool with three legs of determination, focus and resilience

Profound Vers-A-Tales

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

The Undomestic Goddess

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody...

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

Nick Saban

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

Jeannette Walls

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience an...

Sylvia Earle

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

Timothy Murphy

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

Mariella Frostrup

The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.

Christopher Monckton

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

Eric Schlosser

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Elizabeth Edwards

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

Brandon Sanderson

Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.

Gary Hopkins

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

Dee Dee Myers