Quotes About Adaptability

Our personal flexibility increases while our malleability to the whims of others decreases. We experience a heightened sense of autonomy and possibility.

You can put it another way, of course; you always can.

El amor es elástico. No te limita.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

We cannot directly choose our emotions and switch them on but we can use the things we can control to change how we feel.

Had the notion of God not had this flexibility, it would not have survived to become one of the great human ideas.

There's always hope. And when that fails, there's guile and wile.

If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined.

We don't do psyop. We've never worked with Spartans before. And we're definitely not trained for this spook stuff. But how hard can it be? They were ODSTs. They could do anything. It was all about the right attitude—a commando's state of mind. "Hi, BB," Mal said. "Take us to Hinge-head World, then.

Helen didn't hold back. "I told your father that Paul was like a hermit crab. They're scavengers. They don't have the ability to make their own shells, so they cast around until they find abandoned shells, and then they move in.

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

HUMOR IS POWER. ~ Karyn Buxman, RN, neurohumorist __________________     Chapter 1 What's NOT So Funny About Nursing?     12 hour shifts . . . Doctors with attitude . . . Cranky co-workers . . . Frequent flyers . . . Non-compliant patients . . . Frustrated administrators . . . Antibiotic-resistant superbugs . . . Healthcare reform . . . Disorganized supply closets . . . Dwindling budgets . . . Increasing workloads . . . Bad hospital coffee.

Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

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

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

Friday was added to my nickname because I have a talent of getting on with most people. So it's a bit of a man Friday thing.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.