Quotes About Adaptability

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.

While the women in Alaska certainly knew they were physically weaker than most men, it never meant they weren't cleaver enough to find a way to get the job done

I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.

You've probably never heard anyone talk about sales agility before. Sales training programs don't even mention the word. But every top seller I know is an agile learner who knows what it takes to dive into a new situation and figure it out quickly.

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

Your ability to blank slate is directly related to your ability to rid yourself of expectations and assumptions, two very bad words in my system of negotiation.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

In a self-organized team, individuals take accountability for managing their own workload, shift work among themselves based on need and best fit, and take responsibility for team effectiveness. Team members have considerable leeway in how they deliver results, they are self-disciplined in their accountability for those results, and they work within a flexible framework.

If you want to be fast and agile, keep things simple. Speed isn't the result of simplicity, but simplicity enables speed.

Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability

Agility is more attitude than process, more environment than methodology.

Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

Creativity and innovation are the emergent results of well functioning agile teams.

Emotional flexibility reflects the capacity to move freely and appropriately along a wide spectrum of emotions rather than responding rigidly or defensively. Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from experiences of disappointment, frustration and even loss.

3. Suggestibility

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

There's nothing wrong with having a different way of learning. What's wrong is when people blame you for it.

I've heard of men who were permanently stymied in their careers because their wives flatly refused to leave their home towns. That's not right. A man's job has to come first and women have to draw on their natural adaptability.

When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.