Quotes About Adaptability

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places!

Laugh a little when the joke's on you

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function," F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you have to plan for a future beyond the forecasting horizon, plan for surprise. That means, as Danzig advises, planning for adaptability and resilience.

the facts change, I change my mind.

We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up.

We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onward and upward

Project Management Institute

Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

Jack of all trades, master of none...He'd always thought knowing many things gave him strength. Now it made him feel vulnerable.

I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side.

live by the old saying popular with Californians—"Go with the flow"—though that's exactly what happens to a dead goldfish when you flush it down a toilet.

If you stay true to yourself, you will always remain on track, even if that track takes you off the beaten path, to places you could not possibly imagine.