Quotes About Adaptability

I taught President Roosevelt how to handle a car with a lot of unusual gadgets, but he taught me a lot about the fine art of handling people.

She was nineteen, had graduated from high school three years previously, and her business experience was a trifle more than zero. She became one of the most proficient secretaries west of Suez, but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail— Be the best of whatever you are!

My staff is made up of politicians, Rachel, not scientists. You've met Dr. Marlinson. I think he's terrific, but if I let an astrophysicist loose on my team of left-brain, think-inside-the-box intellectuals, I'll end up with a herd of deer in the headlights.

We will revel in hardships and welcome strangeness.

She'd also read up on neuroplasticity. Theo had always lagged behind, in terms of his emotional agility

I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it.

Emotional aptitude is a meta-ability , determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have , including raw inellect .

Emotional resilience comes down to how quickly we recover from upsets. People who are highly resilient—who bounce back right away—can have as much as thirty times more activation in the left prefrontal area than those who are less resilient.

We're being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.

The new measure takes for granted having enough intellectual ability and technical know-how to do our jobs; it focuses instead on personal qualities, such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and persuasiveness.

Los indicadores de la autorregulación emocional son, por consiguiente, fáciles de ver: tendencia a reflexionar y a meditar, comodidad ante la ambigüedad y el cambio, y también integridad, es decir, capacidad de reprimir deseos impulsivos.

Exploration means we disengage from a current focus to search for new possibilities, and allows flexibility, discovery

The key to resilience is trying really hard, then stopping, recovering, and then trying again.

emotional intelligence counts more than IQ or expertise

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around

las creencias de las personas sobre sus propias habilidades tienen un profundo efecto sobre éstas. La habilidad no es un atributo fijo sino que, en este sentido, existe una extraordinaria variabilidad. Las personas que se sienten eficaces se recuperan prontamente de los fracasos y no se preocupan tanto por el hecho de que las cosas puedan salir mal sino que se aproximan a ellas buscando el modo de manejarlas».

team building and adapting to change.

las capacidades de la IE (más que el coeficiente intelectual o las habilidades técnicas) se presentan como la competencia «determinante»

emotional aptitude is a meta-ability, determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have, including raw intellect.

My family is really good at letting go of things and moving on.

Always behave like a duck – keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.