Quotes About Adaptability

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

Coach Wooden's approach succeeded: Setting challenging expectations appropriate to each individual; getting to know each individual well and caring for each as a person; tailoring his instructions and support to individual differences; and treating everyone with respect and fairness. It succeeded for him in the classroom, on the court, and in life.

Superbosses understand that focusing primarily on what might get in the way of change prevents a team or company from ever trying anything new. It also prevents employees from identifying wholeheartedly with the team and giving themselves over to it.

35 Los superjefes también toleran que se admita no saber algo, siempre y cuando usted se dedique a encontrar la respuesta… rápidamente.

For the Minuteman II missile, Texas Instruments had to design and produce twenty-two fairly standard types of circuits in integrated form; every one of those chips was readily adaptable to civilian computers, radio transmitters, and the like. A large number of the most familiar products of the microelectronic revolution, from the busy businessman's pocket beeper to the Action News Minicam ("film at eleven"), resulted directly from space and military development contracts.

The master painter makes art with any brush.

If the mind congeals in one place and remains with one thing, it is like frozen water and is unable to be used freely: ice that can wash neither hands nor feet. When the mind is melted and is used like water, extending throughout the body, it can be sent wherever one wants to send it.

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

Rule Number Three, and Four and Five and about a dozen more: you do not go with the flow in this job. You make the flow go with you.

Worrying had always seemed to me like a laughable waste of time and energy; so much simpler to go happily about your business and deal with the problem when it arose, if it did, which it mostly didn't.