Quotes About Adaptability

it has to do with whether you think intelligence is fixed (you're born as smart as you'll ever be) or changeable (you can get smarter throughout life). When provided with evidence that the brain can grow new pathways, fixed-orientation freshman college students on the verge of dropping out switched to a growth orientation and graduated.

If your company mission is to climb a tree, which would you rather do: hire a squirrel or train a horse?

Kids who learn early in life that they're capable of mastering activities that at first feel a little stressful grow up better able to handle stress of all kinds.

Flexibility is a frame of mind. It is what allows us to choose the best response from a raft of different possibilities. Flexibility in parenting does not mean you should become a pushover. There is a delicate tightrope to be walked between your child's need for structure and the importance of considering content and context when you make decisions. But without flexibility, you are unlikely to be a successful parent and will certainly not be an empathic or introspective one.

Being human means being vulnerable but it also means having the capacity to modify our responses and to make different choices.

Blame and "Whodunit?" questions solve nothing. They create fear, destroy innovation, inhibit teamwork, build walls, and prevent people from engaging.

Mordecai was not one to worry about the things he couldn't change. His desk was covered with the battles he could win.

The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with.

That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business.

If we sometimes recast problems before we begin, more often we revise our specification in the process of actually tackling them.

Lightness of being," then, is the ability, if not to find the good in bad things, then at least to remain afloat among them, perhaps to swim or to sail through them, possibly even to take precautions that can keep you dry.

ejército recuerda a la del agua», explica Sun Tzu. Si atacas donde tu enemigo menos lo espera, es decir, «si evitas su fuerza y atacas su punto débil, entonces, como le ocurre al agua, nada se te opondrá».

Sun Tzu deja suficientes vías libres para contentar al zorro y mantiene, a la vez, el propósito y la determinación del erizo.

the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."21

Zelig-like penchant for being intimately involved in a series of key social and technological movements

Learning how to learn on his own proved one of the most important lessons of his life.

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic.