Quotes About Adaptation

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Never expect anything, but plan for everything.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

Every competition is different... You can't plan for everything that happens.

I do hate air conditioning and early mornings, but my friends all know this and plan accordingly.

If you are batting first as an opener, you give yourselves a couple of overs, see what's the wicket behaving, and then try to assess what a good score on that wicket would be, and then you plan accordingly.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

You can't plan success with a creative field. So I enjoy it while it's here, and I know it won't be forever. Maybe one day I'll have to go back to flipping burgers, but for now I'm going to enjoy the cool things.

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

I fight with a game plan, but sometimes you have an audible.

You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.

I come from the corporate world, where everyone has a five-year plan, but performing arts doesn't work that way; you just kinda do the best job you can with the gig you've got.

Seven daughters was never part of my plan.

I have a backup plan. Everybody should have a backup plan. I am a banker. The day you all get bored of me and don't want to watch my films, I will go back to banking.

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'