Quotes About Adaptability

Grounded in awareness of transiency, ambiguity, and contingency, such a person values lightness of touch, flexibility and adaptability, a sense of humor and adventure, appreciation of other viewpoints, a celebration of difference.

Anglo-Saxon and Franco-Norman came into closer contact, and the linguistic survival techniques on both sides led to the emergence of a supple, adaptable language in which you could invent or half-borrow words and didn't have to worry so much about whether your sentences had the right verb endings or respected certain strict rules of word order and style (as this sentence proves). The result was the earliest form of what would become English.

America has faced hardships in the past but we have always mounted a comeback! We defeated the Nazis, we defeated the Native Americans, we defeated the environment, we even defeated the Metric System! Kilos? Sorry, that's drug talk. This is America! Where we eat fruit by the foot, not muesli by the meter.

people who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can't.

A Hungarian Jew, as he looked to observe, is the only man who can follow you into a revolving door and come out first.

taught him how to look into the hearts and judge the intentions of others. How to imagine and how to reason. How to find the strength to let passions cool before acting. How to make a plan and how to know when a plan needed to be changed or abandoned. How to let the head rule the heart and the heart win the affection of others.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

God grant me the SERENITY to accept what I cannot change, the TENACITY to change what I may, and the GOOD LUCK not to fuck up too often.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

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

Mr Traynor's a nice man. And I wouldn't have brought you here if I thought it wouldn't go well.' 'If he doesn't like me, can we just leave? Like, really quickly?' 'Of course.' 'I'll know. Just from how he looks at me.' 'We'll skid out on two wheels if necessary.

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

Hacking is really just the act of finding a clever and counterintuitive solution to a problem.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

the artist's job is not to get locked into any period

There's an old saying: "Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

There's an old military saying...If at first you don't succeed, call in an air strike.

Fundamentalism—the intellectual style, not the religious movement—is the strong disinclination to take seriously the notion that you might be wrong.

I realised that health is not a matter of never being ill. It is the ability to recover.