Quotes About Adaptability

Sometimes you can't even defend 350 and sometimes, you can defend even 250. It's all about mindset.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

My child, you should practice for your mind to be like water. When people put fragrant oils or milk into the water, it does not rejoice, and when people put excrement, mud, or urine into the water, the water is not angry, because the water has a tremendous capacity of acceptance and transformation. Water can purify everything.

I stay in line if everybody is standing politely in line, but if people begin to surge toward the ticket window I am alert to be—though never among the first—not among the last.

UPS are replacing fixed daily routes with dynamic ones adjusted in real time for weather and traffic—again with machine learning. Only cognitive technologies can handle all the necessary data. And at some point supply chains may be powered by autonomously driven trucks, which will bring enormous changes to that domain.

Don't try to impose any pattern or symmetry on this guy. Stay open and let him show you.

Siéntate ante los hechos como un niño pequeño, disponte a abandonar cualquier idea preconcebida, sigue a la naturaleza dondequiera y a cualesquiera abismos a los que te lleve, o no aprenderás nada

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Aging does that; it makes you amenable to far more ambiguous feelings and opinions than the inflexible black-and-white thinking of youth.

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.

Do It! Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. —Theodore Roosevelt U.S. president

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene Success

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain.

When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Take the next shot thinking of what you must do right.

I am, in general, an easygoing person. I try to take a reed-bending-with-the-wind attitude toward life, rather than fight everything. But these constant "out of the frying pan, into the fire, into a worse fire, into a worse fire than the worse fire before it" situations that had been riddling my life of late were beginning to wear me down

Exactly. You might not be the sharpest apple in the barrel, but you do have your wicks lit when it matters.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." —Alvin Toffler I

That isn't always enough. I had written a piece for the Wall Street Journal's weekly column called the Manager's Journal. The editor liked the piece but kept pushing it back so he could publish other pieces that were timelier. So I began to rewrite the intros to my piece each week to relate to something that was in the news at the time. In short order, the article finally saw the light of day.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no 'normal' person would do.

Remember, when you don't know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It's like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

Life ain't in holdin' a good hand but in playin' a poor one well.

Some men are so well-tempered they can lose it every day and never run out.

When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.