#resilience

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. ↗

— Brad Henry

#fabric #grow #into #obstacle #oklahoma

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better. ↗

— Ian Botham

#amazing #area #believer #better #get

What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun--which is to say, preserving the human spirit. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#still-life-with-woodpecker #tom-robbins #totalitarianism #beauty

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

#make #matter #matters #miserable #over

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience. ↗

— Michael Franti

#building #change #climate #climate change #help

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#baltimore #love #loving #perfect #place

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

#campaign #clinton #get #give #going

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. ↗

— Gary Neville

#back #bounce #call #could #developed

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#boo #called #child #kid #never

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#countries #democracy #elections #freedom #helped