Quotes About Adaptability

I'm not picky; I'll get it how I can take it. Submission, KO - whatever it is, if it has me winning, I'll take it.

I've finished fights from my feet, I've finished fights with my ground-and-pound, and I've finished fights from my back with a submission, from top with submission. You name it, and I've finished a fight that way.

Always I try one submission. If it doesn't work, the second one works.

I see the takedowns; I see the opportunities to take people down or even try to submit them or something like that. But man, I prefer to stay on my feet. That way I'm confident.

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Being a substitute can be an advantage. I know this situation from the national team. And I am also good as a player coming from the bench.

While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.

It is best to keep a substitution open for the final 15 minutes, as you never know if you are going to lose someone to injury and be left with 10 men.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

People who succeed in my job are people who are not afraid to look silly.

One thing I love about guards in this league is that you can be a 5-foot-9 pit bull or a methodical 6-foot-7 jump-shooter, and still succeed in your own way.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.

Planning lets you impose order on the chaotic process of making something new, but when it's taken too far you get locked into a status quo, and creative thinking is about breaking free from the status quo, even from one you made yourself.

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

Not until you succeed in being really flexible and soft, can you become really strong and forceful. —Zen Buddhist proverb

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Humanity's survival does not depend on reducing differences to a common identity, but on learning to live creatively with differences.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass- it's learning to dance in the rain.

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.

One should be abnormal to make things normal