Quotes About Adaptability

for in days when books were few and readers scarce, a long memory and a ready tongue were of the more value;

life isn't about finding shelter in a storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Smart people don't wallow in self-pity. They find a new dream.

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

There were, it appeared, more ways to skin a Katz than one Ã¢â'¬Â¦

We would be in real trouble if everybody in GCHQ was like him, but we can tolerate a higher proportion of such people than most organizations. We put up with a number of people like him. Figure 66 James Ellis. (photo credit 6.4) One of Ellis's greatest qualities was his breadth of knowledge.

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

Mothers are multi-taskers.

ODYSSEUS             I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.

In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all. And the same thing happens in sailing: make your sheet fast, never slacken,--and over you go

Only fools think that they alone Are wise, and hear no other point of view. À wise man is never ashamed to learn, To listen, and bend when the time is right. When a flood sweeps through a forest, the trees That bend survive, keep every leaf intact; The ones that don't snap off and are swept away. A wise man knows when to slacken sail; À fool refuses and overturns his ship.

There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.

I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.

True freedom is the ability to respond consciously, in the most beneficial way, to whatever life throws at you.

You will realize your life is most peaceful when you actually stop caring or worrying about things and situations you can not change.

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

Bending according to circumstances in not weakness, it's wisdom.