resilience Quotes

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.