Quotes About Adaptability

There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

Confident persons hit roadblocks while pursuing their dreams and objectives, but they look for an alternate route rather than giving up and going home.

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.

Accessible design is good design.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Okay, here's the tough part, but we know you can do it. If you run out of an ingredient or forget an item, substitute it with something else, borrow it from a neighbor, or make a different meal—just don't go back to the store. You can do it—it may take some time to perfect your system, but eventually it will be as easy as breathing.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp& D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R &amp D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

If there's one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it's that almost any design idea--no matter how appallingly bad--can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort.

Thinking outside-of-the-box is a tactical skill that should be practiced daily by everyone. A truly great 'strategic' skill is when someone is able to get others to think outside-of-the-box.

The agility of prime, not the stability of maturity, is the ideal goal for healthy organizations.

You need to be good at failing to be successful.

Glints or kicks can be diminished by repositioning a shiny object or by applying washable dulling spray or even soap.

I felt ready for anything, as long as it wasn't too threatening.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. —Josh Billings

Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.

Is the sky falling? No. It's maybe drooping a bit.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

I can nod off anywhere. Once, when I was little, I even slept through a car crash.

I slept on a friend's kitchen floor for a year and a half.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.