Quotes About Adaptability

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

The safest way to be in business today and the way to gain as much control over your business as possible, is to have a business model of multiples where you can reach a multiple of audiences in multiple ways.

Can't we all simmer down a bit? Let the teachers teach, the parents parent, and the kids do the learning. Our children will be fine, just as we were. They will figure it out, just as we did. They don't need every advantage skewed their way and every discomfort fluffed with pillows. I bet they don't even need sandwich dolphins. I am a product of bologna, red Kool-Aid, and home perms, and I turned out okay.

Staying the course involves some bends in the road. Being stubborn, refusing to go with the flow, will leave you in a ditch with an airbag exploded in your face. Never give up, course correct when necessary, and have faith that if you have the desire, the Universe has your back.

Don't take failure personally. Get your ego out of it and your curiosity into it. Approach failure with an attitude of Hmmm, I wonder why that happened? Was there something I could have done differently?

She went to the spiritual gym. She constantly read books by other entrepreneurs, she had pictures taped to her walls of women who'd done stuff like run successful restaurants in war zones, she memorized poems, meditated, and constantly reminded herself that uncertainty is part of the process. Everyone

WHO DO I NEED TO BE FOR THIS SITUATION NOT TO BOTHER ME?

But if I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

Good leaders know when to follow rules and when to break them.

I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

Pretend for a moment," Lia told her, "that we're all very, very slow." "I'm not very good at pretending," Sloane told her seriously. "But I think I can do that.

Even in the darkest of times, Xander was Xander. "You're going to drop one of those on your foot," I said. "That's okay," Xander responded cheerfully. "I have two feet!

One thing I've learned, my friend, is every person you meet has different needs, and when we wish to be a valuable part of the person's life, we must learn them." His mouth quirked in a wry grin. "I suppose that's the trick, isn't it? Caring for a person in the way they require, even when it's not how we'd wish to. from Miss Whitaker Opens Her Heart

But the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

What vain weather-cocks we are!

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.

Älä pyri siihen, että kaikki tapahtuisi kuten haluat, vaan halua kaiken tapahtuvan niin kuin se tapahtuu. Silloin elämäsi on tasaista virtaa.

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.

In recent years, historians have broken with the essentialist notion of Indians as noble primitives capable of change only as a form of decay. Rejecting that ahistorical fantasy, historians now define Indianness as an adaptability that interweaves tradition with innovation in a struggle for cultural survival in a transformed land.