Quotes About Adaptability

Great teams cross-train and never have to hear, 'I don't know how to do that.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

He acted like doing too much advance preparation would diminish his skills in improvising.

It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?

Life is a martial art.

The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

?udno, ko zdaj podoživljam ?ustvene boje tistih ?asov, dobim vtis, da moja velika mladostniška kriza ni nastopila, kakor se praviloma dogaja, ko sem odraš?ala v dekle, ampak v otroških letih. Pri dvanajstih, trinajstih štirinajstih sem že imela neko svojo žalostno trdnost... Vse je bilo le ena izmed naštetih malih vlogic, ki sem jih morala odigrati, ?e sem hotela imeti mir... Niso nas vzgajali za doslednost, temve? za prilagodljivost.

Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our hubris gets in our way.

most of my teachers have been animals. What have animals taught me about life? How to be a good creature.

Sometimes you'll lead, sometimes you'll follow. Expect you'll grumble about the following part for a while yet.

By achieving consciousness, we can live from who we are today rather than who we were yesterday. In this way, we can respond appropriately to situations, tapping the full range and potential of our skills and talents, rather than inappropriately reacting to events, driven by the fears and insecurities of the past.

Xabbu was taught by his people to absorb everything the world gives him and then, after sifting out the most important details, to act on them. But he is also clever and supremely flexible. Faced with a new world, he did not try to force it to comply with his expectations, but began all over to learn the rules, without prejudice as to where the information came from.

Things do not necessarily happen for the best, but I can choose to make the best of things that happen.10

If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.

Da says I make a whole loaf from pigeon crumbs.

By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

I feel that my local bias frees me from the global bias that gets in the way of top-down thinkers.

But no matter what the truth, remember: Dominicans are Caribbean and therefore have an extraordinary tolerance for extreme phenomena

It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the centre of the circle to an indefinite point outside its circumference.

master of alternatives, the eternal custodian of Plan B;

A strong girl no matter how girly she is, whether she loves unicorns and rabbits and wear sparkly stars in her hair and glitter nail polish, needs to know how to defend herself. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA

What can I say?" he says when I ask him back at the beach house about it. "I just know how to get along with kids." Rachel, who's sitting at the kitchen table, snorts. "Mostly because you never grew up.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Be like a Bird in Flight. Be able to see Before You, Around You, and Behind You At All Times. - Kailin Gow on Awareness