Quotes About Adaptability

If you are a true investor, it does not matter if the markets are going up or coming down. A true investor does well in any market condition.

When criticized for making 1,014 mistakes before creating the electric light bulb, Thomas Edison said, "I did not fail 1,014 times. I successfully found out what did not work 1,014 times." In other words, the reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more easily.

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.

SEALs, like the name said, were trained to operate in all conditions - SEa, Air, Land. But Stuffy Victorian Hotel Lobby hadn't made the list.

She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

I'm not a heroine, I just play heroines. Also psychotics, vamps, orphans, hookers, housewives, and "on one memorable occasionâ "a singing rutabaga. It was never my ambition to utilize my extensive dramatic training by playing a musical vegetable. However, as my agent is so fond of pointing out, there are more actors in New York than there are people in most other cities. Translation: Beggars can't be choosers.

Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

Welcome to the only class that will teach you to how to survive" Welcome to Art.

A plan began forming in my mind, but I quickly shushed the thought. I didn't have time to dream or plan. I would deal with each hour as it came, one step at a time.

First and foremost a pragmatist, he had no time for the interference of unnecessary standards.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.