Quotes About Adaptability

Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance to become the next great visionaries.

Sometimes I'm in that timeout, and I say, 'Let's go a possession of zone,' and they're like, 'Yeah, let's do it,' and that shows that they're confident enough to roll with whatever we're doing. And sometimes they're like, 'No, no, no, no.' They don't want a possession to get away from them, possibly.

I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, Neat, through loopholes Less than themselves.

The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails, you have another meeting.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Always take an emergency leisurely.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

If there's no bread, cakes are very good.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.