Quotes About Adaptability

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!

We must be the willow, not the oak, in the lowering storm.

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Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. [...] Too much water and you flowed in too many directions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

The life she'd led, each of the places she'd called home sending unexpected shoots toward the next, had made her open to almost anything.

A Pragmatic Programmer takes charge of his or her own career, and isn't afraid to admit ignorance or error.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938 Engineers

There is no such thing as a best solution, be it a tool, a language, or an operating system. There can only be systems that are more appropriate in a particular set of circumstances.

If it's easy to reuse, people will. Create an environment that supports reuse.

There is no such thing as a best solution, be it a tool, a language, or an operating system.

There can only be systems that are more appropriate in a particular set of circumstances.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938

when life gives you lemons, say, yeah I like lemons, what else ya got?

Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand

It's true that I was forty-four when we opened our first Wal-Mart in 1962, but the store was totally an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since Newport—another case of me being unable to leave well enough alone, another experiment. And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.

JIM WALTON: "Dad always said you've got to stay flexible. We never went on a family trip nor have we ever heard of a business trip in which the schedule wasn't changed at least once after the trip was underway. Later, we all snickered at some writers who viewed Dad as a grand strategist who intuitively developed complex plans and implemented them with precision. Dad thrived on change, and no decision was ever sacred.

Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction." All