Quotes About Adaptability

Often the most resource-ful person is the one who has tried the most approaches, taken the most risks, failed the most times.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Fabius took command after Cannae, avoided pitched battle with Hannibal and played a waiting game, combining guerrilla tactics with a scorched-earth policy, to wear down the enemy (hence 'delayer').

If life gives you lemons - make grapejuice. Then sit back and let people wonder how you did it.

You don't need to be on the save wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other's waves.

Love is like a Rhino, short-sighted, but always willing to find a way.

It is good to have many strengths, Natiya...Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another

I was gradually learning as a teacher why teachers' colleges were wrong to spend so much time on planning. The most important thing to learn was to be able to throw the plan away, whatever it was. What was necessary was to listen, to follow each minute to its peak, learning as you went.

Almost everything we know about good software architecture has to do with making software easy to change

There are few endeavors in which it is more important to keep options open than in software development. In Chapter 3, "Decide as Late as Possible

Schedule irreversible decisions for the last responsible moment, that is, the last chance to make the decision before it is too late.

and Alexander was nothing if not resourceful. He had had the legs of her chair cut down.

Complaining doesn't butter the biscuit" -Agatha Swanburne

Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. - Makoto Kuzanagi, Ghost in the shell

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

HERE IS A GOOD WAY to navigate your life: remember that for anything that happens to you, you will find the resources within you to deal with it.

Si no es para tu provecho, la puerta está abierta: si es para tu provecho, mantenla. Porque en cada acontecimiento la puerta debe estar abierta y entonces no tendremos problemas»,[11

Thought leaders develop a bank of ideas that can be accessed in a moment and can be instantly customized to suit any audience or situation. They become a living encyclopedia of knowledge and expertise.

Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

For now, I do what I know keeps me just about level. Exercise definitely helps me, as does yoga and absorbing myself in something or someone I love, so I keep doing these things. I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

Always keep your eyes on the horizon, but don't be afraid to tack with the wind. Take the two steps forward when you can, and don't worry about the one step back, as long as it's only a tactical retreat.

1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

Only a group of people who share a body of knowledge and continually learn together can stay vital and viable.