Quotes About Adaptability

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

And that's when he learned that for women, all things are possible, and for men, time is required. There was recovery involved. Women, apparently, could just hop back on that bus, while the men were left to deal with a flat tire. He committed that to memory—these gorgeous creatures needed no time to get ready again.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

Whatever the wording, all our justifications for failure focus on "why it can't be done," rather than on "what else I can do." To

Asking, "What else can I do?" when you discover that you are wrong, in any situation or after suffering any personal setback, illuminates the path you need to take

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

Like all Americans, he had no talent for bowing to the inevitable. The word 'impossible' is not in his vocabulary.

The most difficult work of leadership involves learning to experience distress without numbing yourself.

When your leadership appeals to only one generation, you are limiting your leadership in the future. Leading cross-generationally occurs when you are able to lead people in your own generation, the generation that came before you, and the generation that comes behind you. Connecting to all generations is what forward leaders will do.

We have to take everything as it comes and to find beauty in everything. That's what I manage to do.

Given such strong defenses against change, fresh ideas come from those who do more than think outside the box. They think outside the building.

If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn.

Harriet never minded admitting when she didn't know something. 'So what,' she thought, 'I can always learn.

Rigidity of thought is a trap too many of us fall into. . . .

Don't leave your home without a notebook, paper scraps, something to write with. * Don't walk into the world without your eyes and ears focused and open. * Don't make excuses about what you don't have or what you would do if you did, use that energy to 'find a way, make a way.

As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.

Okay. Let's see... She considered her past, and then smiled wryly and shook her head. Well, I was a perfume maker, Amaone, concubine, a duchess, a pirate, a madam, and then a hunter. Harper's eyebrows had slid up his forehead as she rattled of her resume.

Damn all fixed ideas!

En hij kan het beste te werk gaan zoals bekwame boogschutters, die wanneer ze het doel dat ze willen raken te ver weg achten, omdat ze weten wat de kracht van hun boog is, het mikpunt veel hoger nemen dan het doelwit, niet om met hun pijl zo hoog te komen, maar om met behulp van dat hoge mikpunt hun doel te kunnen bereiken.

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.

adaptable of plants, being able to thrive in a wide range of climates from subtropical California to the deep-freezer

improved, so don't let that limit where you use roses in the landscape. Roses are very tolerant of different soil types, especially if the soil is improved