Quotes About Adaptability

Homogeneity breeds weakness: theoretical blind spots, stale paradigms, an echo-chamber mentality, and cults of personality.

Willingness is giving up trying to control behaviors or outcomes. By giving up control you can do what is needed in any situation. Willingness is wholehearted, spontaneous participation, responding to situations as needed, without resentment or preconceived ideas of what has to be done, how to do it, or when to do it.

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

The trend today is toward specialization and further compartmentalization, which is a big mistake.

I will live by the best I can discern today. Tomorrow I may find out I was wrong. Since I do not live by being right, I am not destroyed by being wrong.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don't always get what you thought you were asking for.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

Adventure, my dear, is as much a state of mind as anything else. One can travel the world and never find the excitement to be found within arm's reach. Remain true to yourself, but understand happiness may not always be found in the plans we have laid out for ourselves, but rather in the unforeseen turns life takes us. Do not close your mind, or your heart, to the unexpected twists of life. It is those unexpected paths that could well lead to the greatest adventures of all.

Innovation is more attitude than skill.

Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!