Quotes About Adaptability

You can't take anything in life WAY too seriously...Even the serious stuff!

Life is full of challenges thus that you spend Get used to it

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.

Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. We have not outgrown this.

We have a great number of ways of being intelligent, many of which don't show up on IQ tests.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Discernment emerges from understanding the nature of the conflict and what level of response is needed to deal with it adequately. Creativity is needed for flexibility and innovation.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

He who laughs last is generally the one that thought fastest on his feet

Any single person's viewpoint will have blind spots caused by their habitual ways of perceiving the world, their perceptual filters...How can we shift our perceptions to get outside our own limited world view?

T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

Cookbooks can be wonderfully entertaining and informative, but I don't like having to bring them with me to the stove. My goal as a cook has always been not so much to attain some specific sense of mastery as to be able to just go into the kitchen, take up what I find there, and make a meal of it.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference.

Stability means figuring out how to prioritize what serves you, not feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly, + just balancing everything as best you can.

mindful approach to any activity has three characteristics: the continuous creation of new categories; openness to new information; and an implicit awareness of more than one perspective

If we don't begin with a rigid plan, it is hard to make a mistake.

All is fish that comes to the net i.e. there is absolutely nothing in life that can be counted out as completely useless or worthless. In other words, you can and should take advantage of anything that comes your way or rather take advantage of all the opportunities that come your way. ~Emeasoba George

Don't take yourself and life so seriously. For, you ought not to do that. I mean, disregard or overlook somethings sometimes.

This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

Oh dear! how unamiable I am when I am with my uncle and aunt," thought Rachel, "thoroughly detestable I may say, and yet when I am with those girls, or little Charlie, I can be as good as gold, and so tame that that baby can lead me; I do believe evil qualities are more catching than measles.

Dream kitchens. I will have countless ones, in my heart or in reality. Or in my travels. Alone, with a crowd of people, with one other person—in all the many places I will live. I know that there will be so many more.