Quotes About Adaptability

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

One of his mechanics who despaired when he could not get spare parts for the tanks once announced casually that most of them were ordinary parts he used to order from Sears, Roebuck. Patton seized upon the remark. When it proved impossible to obtain the parts through regular channels—partly because of the red tape and partly because the Army simply did not have any at that stage—he ordered them from Sears, Roebuck and paid the bill out of his own pocket.

A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.

I'm starting to question our choice of life skills," she whispered to him. "I know. Why aren't we samurai?" "Let's be samurai," she said.

She didn't need a Taser; she was more than capable of defending herself without electricity. She'd had an unusual education.

Tools?" scoffed Kalisti, "Tools are for people who have nothing better to do than think things through and make sensible plans.

The women's way was more effective. They might be ignored, abused, or dominated, but in the end the women were more practical, keeping their eye on whatever prize was within their grasp.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.

That's not the spirit of the law, Emma. Remember? The Law is hard, but it is the Law." "I thought it was 'the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible.

But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if you're strong enough," said Jace firmly.

You snuck up on me," she said. "I guess I'm not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?" Simon shrugged. "Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

I could eat a boot, I think, if it were well boiled, with perhaps a dash of salt for flavoring.

I am not as unstable as people tend to think, but I allow them their margin for error because it allows me mine.

I cover her with myself. See, if I have no body, I can be any shape I want. I can take up any amount of space I choose. I can be a blanket. Drape myself over her like a down comforter. I can pour myself over her head like water. I can shine on her like light, bathe her with myself until she feels something resembling warmth again. Don't believe it entirely, Mom, I say.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

Humans are remarkably adaptable, and in some ways we adapt better to the worst-case scenario than to the idea that anything can be better. There is a full cup of fatalism in the recipe for Homo sapiens sapiens , and some of us are very much more comfortable with the world ending than it going on.

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

Whatever his father said about angles of stifles, cow hocks or spavins, all horses were handsome and good. You just had to find the right use for them.

Australians in general are pretty casual about traveling. If you grow up there, you basically get trained in long-haul flights—fifteen hours, twenty-four—it's what we're used to. For us, eight hours across the Atlantic seems like a doddle.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

The careful driver is not actually imagining or planning for all of the countless contingencies that might crop up; nor is he merely competent to recognise and cope with any one of them, if it should arise. He has not foreseen the runaway donkey, yet he is not unprepared for it.

the whole art of guerrilla warfare lies in striking the enemy where he least expects it and yet where he is most vulnerable

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.