Resilient Quotes
140 quotes by 131 authors
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The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.
— John Banville
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The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.
— Julie Bishop
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We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in…
— Yvon Chouinard
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A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.
— H. L. Mencken
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Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of…
— Chip Conley
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A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular…
— Fritjof Capra
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Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts…
— Will Steffen
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The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive…
— Greg Nickels
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Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
— Russell Simmons
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My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices of others, and…
— Neil L. Andersen
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The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten…
— Sandra Dallas
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The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future
— Phil Harding
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their…
— Saul Alinsky
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We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black…
— June Jordan
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
— Ralph Bakshi
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Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.
— Jeff Bezos
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America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
— Bill Frist
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I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're…
— Carl Safina
Who Wrote These Resilient Quotes
131 authors contributed a total of 140 Resilient Quotes, led by these top contributors: