Quotes About Adaptation

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.

As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.

Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.

The chief of staff has to reflect and sometimes complement the strengths of the president he serves.

As a skipper, when you try to manipulate the field, you need to see the strengths of the fast bowlers.

Some players respond to shouting; some don't. Everyone is different, and that is one of a manager's strengths to understand that some don't respond to that.

Sometimes your limitations become your strengths. It forces you to create your own niche.

Speaking selfishly, having to counter-attack is not one of my strengths.

I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me.

To be a true leader, I needed to better understand my unique strengths and how to apply them across the company as we grew.

One of the strengths of the 'Resident Evil' game franchise is that they keep changing it up.

I've realised what my strengths are and what my strengths are not, and played accordingly.

If you're in the ring with somebody that doesn't throw good punches, guess what. Don't have him throw any punches. You work to their strengths. It's really not that difficult. You don't try to get them to do things that are out of their realm or whatever. It's not hard. It's not rocket science.

Every opposition needs to be played in a different way and the formation depends on the opposition's strengths.

Fighting your opponent's strengths is the key, you frustrate them on what they have best.

The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed up the way it does in people and other primates.

Don't stress out about the things you can't control.

Clearly, for an organization to move on, it is the job of the leader to be that sponge that takes the stress from inside and the outside.

When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do.