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Quotes About Adapting

No matter how high you rise in your career, no matter how much expertise you gain, you still need to keep your knowledge and your insights refreshed. Otherwise, you may develop a false confidence in what you already "know" that might lead you to the wrong decision.
~ Tom Kelley
Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently.
~ Tom Perrotta
When there are too many choices, or the answer does not seem obvious, it seems better to go with the flow; after all, you might miss out on something good.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
Forget about plan "B" I'm now on plan "Z"
~ Unknown
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
~ Tony Buzan
I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.
~ Tori Amos
The plan is: there is no plan.
~ Unknown
You never know," said Raistlin with a glance at the kitchen. "People change.
~ Unknown
Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.
~ Paul Levine
And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
~ Paulo Coelho
We can't control what's going to happen but we can grow in awareness of what is happening.
~ Pema Chodron
If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert's Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.
~ Dave Barry
top, mid-depths, and bottom—are the Olive Beadhead listed for green rock worms, the March Brown Spider soft-hackle listed for caddis pupae, and the Deer Hair Caddis given here for caddis adults. I often try more than one of them at once.
~ Unknown
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Well then, try to keep an open mind be ready to learn about other things. Such as this, I suppose Such as trying not to have set ideas - other people's ideas - about love
~ Winston Graham
Yes, and this is how you are a citizen: Come on. Let it go. Move on.
~ Claudia Rankine
There's a way to break out of this bind: Don't act as though your limited experience represents universal truths. It doesn't. Force yourself to go outside your own experience by vigorously testing your assumptions.
~ Herb Cohen
Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.
~ Heywood Broun
And then I had to learn how to be a person all the time. I tried to be, for you.
~ Holly Black
Boys change," she told him. "And so do stories.
~ Holly Black
He'd be fine. Every child went to school. They survived. They learned the rules of life.
~ Liane Moriarty
It had felt like she was starting a new job: her job as a primary school mother. There would be rules and paperwork and procedures to learn.
~ Liane Moriarty
Try not to saddle yourself with too distinct a personality too early in life. It might not suit you later on. Say
~ Liane Moriarty
It was as if she were being picked up and put down again in each new stage of her life like a chess piece. She
~ Liane Moriarty