Quotes About Adaptability

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

When you seek to share your best work—your best story, your shot at change—it helps if it's likely to spread. It helps if it's permanent. But even if it's extraordinary, it's not going to make a difference if you drop it in the ocean. That doesn't mean you give up hope. It means you walk away from the ocean and look for a large swimming pool.

Don't be difficult." That was the wrong thing to say.

You will have to be on your guard, and when your guard slips, you must recover." My fencing master used to say something eerily similar to that. And then she'd add that making a recover was much more difficult than simply doing the thing right the first time.

The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.

As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.

We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.

Bengalis say when offered cod, we still have other fish to fry.

there is nothing restrictive or self-limiting about the Indian identity it reasserts: it is large, eclectic and flexible, containing multitudes. I

the indestructibility of the army pack mule. Falling from a height of thirty feet, one of these creatures—watched in amazement by a regiment of troopers whose colonel recorded the incident in his memoirs—"turned a somersault, struck an abutment, disappeared under water, came up, and swam ashore without disturbing his pack.

It's all about perspective, my friend. That and the ability to duck fast when life throws excrement at you. -Maris

When the going gets tough, the tough reload. Nick DH

No se trata de encontrar refugio en una tormenta. Se trata de aprender a bailar bajo la lluvia.

When life hands you lemons say, "Lemons? What else have you got?" - bumper sticker

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.

Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.

My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.