Quotes About Adaptability

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

lot of agility, adaptability, a natural propensity toward curiosity, an insatiable appetite for that and this and this and that!

One fateful day, expecting high praise from my advisor for some work I felt great about, I instead heard from him: "Marilee, this is just not acceptable." At that moment something new happened. Instead of tearfully wondering what was wrong with me, I took a deep breath, and becoming calm and curious, simply asked him "OK, how do I fix it?" That simple shift took me from feeling powerless to being confident enough to take constructive action.

Security is not having things, it's handling things.

I love supporting blue chip companies' revival. Shows wise when you are on the top and you are still not ignorant & arrogant to realise your weaknesses.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

You can do anything to my food and I'll still eat it.

Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on.

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

The most sensible person is the one who knows to put his pride in the pocket when he realizes he was wrong and is able to laugh at himself.

To live a creative life , we must lose our fear of being wrong.

YOUTHFULNESS is about how you live not when you were born.