Quotes About Adaptability

The greatness of Intel is not that it is smarter than other companies (though it may well be) or that it is too clever and competent to make a false move (we've just seen a stunning example of the very opposite) but that it has consistently done better than any company, perhaps ever, at recovering from its mistakes.

That is how entrepreneurs work. Where others see a barrier, they imagine a logical solution and then turn it into reality.

Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for everyone else is merely the need to improve reality for them.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.

Ce n'est pas très difficile de travailler dans un bureau, il suffit d'être un peu méticuleux, de prendre des décisions rapidement, et de s'y tenir. J'avais vite compris qu'il n'est pas forcément nécessaire de prendre /la meilleur décision/, mais qu'il suffit, dans la plupart des cas, de prendre /une décision quelconque/, à condition de la prendre rapidement; enfin, si on travaille dans le secteur public.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

I would survive this. I'd survived worse things. After all, I was bamboo, and bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Maybe I dance to a different drum, but I get the job done well. I need to be accommodated, not managed.

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

But the point is still valid: human relations are malleable, and if a person has the appropriate skills their rules can be transformed. But

We need to become different people in our responses to others, building character traits that allow us to handle their craziness without becoming victims. When we become different, people will respond to us differently. But most important, we'll have the strength of character and the boundaries that allow us to be emotionally healthy, no matter what others do.

We won't be able to eliminate the drama in our lives or escape all the crazies. But we can actually learn to live responsively instead of reactively, being positive when others are negative.

They learned that small programs, like small cars, handled better, were more adaptable, and were easier to maintain than large programs.

The new sysadmin won't power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he'll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service. With

Why worry about doing something you love? Figure out what the opportunity is. Find a thing, get good at it, learn to love it later.

The Cat always lands on his feet,

I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.

Neither of us gets to be the princess all the time.

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

How can we help young people develop as creative thinkers so that they're prepared for life in this ever-changing world?