Quotes About Adaptability

The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.

I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

use an item for its intended purpose. For example, do not just use a tablecloth for a table, make it a slip cover for your ottoman. It can save you lots of money and time when you purchase

This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist—and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.

No one is unreachable as long as he is teachable.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Haz lo que puedas, con lo que tengas, donde estés

Fate ciò che potete, con ciò che avete, dove siete.

F? ce po?i cu ce ai, acolo unde e?ti.