Quotes About Adaptability

a difficult circumstance in a more enlightened and empowering way. Dogs cannot do this. Cats cannot do this. Monkeys cannot do this. This gift belongs only to us and is part of what makes us human.

Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

When you're doing all you can and "what more?" seems an impossible task, try thinking differently, step outside your box, and open your mind to solutions that were there all the time. Solutions you just couldn't see. Act

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers — all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there's only one right answer, then you'll stop looking as soon as you find one.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

The other side of that coin, which Nansen found hard to fathom, was that someone like Shackleton was only true to himself when improvising; fighting against the odds. He would wither in the face of systematic preparation, and only in a crisis did he come into his own.

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

Throughout his career, he operated in the realm of the possible, taking the world as it was, not as he wished it to be, and he often inveighed against a dogmatic insistence upon perfection.

Rockefeller had positioned himself exactly where he wished to be—poised to profit from either surplus or scarcity and all but immune to the vagaries of the marketplace.

Rockefeller handled people adroitly and wasn't the cold curmudgeon of later myth.

Personas inteligentes que trabajen duro, presten atención y sean capaces de pensar de modo diferente.

Sleep when you can, so you won't need to when you can't.

Smart people, working hard, paying attention, thinking laterally.

We need to make fast decisions here. We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Reacher always arranged the smallest details in his life so he could move on at a split second's notice. It was an obsessive habit. He owned nothing and carried nothing. Physically he was a big man, but he cast a small shadow and left very little in his wake.

No one says always or never. Everyone says sometimes.

She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time.

We can focus on the ability to react to events rather than relying on the ability to predict them, on qualities like flexibility, confidence, courage, and perseverance.

Or as the IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." I

Îngrijitorii trebuie s? se menÈ›in? spre calea spre autofocusare, indiferent de r?spunsul pe care îl primesc din partea celorlalÈ›i.

Consider anything, only don't cry!

You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.