Adaptability Quotes
32 quotes
"Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns."
"When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary."
"Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future."
"The measure of a person’s strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability."
"People tend to be more tofu-like, able to absorb whatever environment they're dropped into. But where does the adaptability end and your actual personality begin?"
"Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does."
"Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life."
"Change is essential for survival. All life forms must adapt to their fluctuating circumstances. All form of life result from the process of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance. The universe is in a constant state of chaos. We each have chaos implanted into our bones. Nature wires all of us for change."
"Alterations in the environment place us under personal stress. Changes in our routines and the physical, social, cultural, and economic environment forces us to make decisive decisions, we cannot continue our robotic ways. We must adapt to fresh encounters with the peripheral world. Variation in our external domain brings about shocking revolutions of our internal realm of thoughts and emotions."
"A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources."
"We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become."
"The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt."
"I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it."
"Culture is nested in context, not genes."
Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
"Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes.And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible."
Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
"A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements."
"Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability."
Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
"There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing."
"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change."
"An adaptive mind has better learning capability."
Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
"Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service."
"Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered."
"Many or few alternatives can be at hand. A wise and skilful choice acts from a sincere effort. Solutions and results come from cooperation, hard work and efficiency. With high intention matched with a flexible, patient heart and proficient action gets best quality and value. As for the restless grumbles raving from unconsciousness of complexity of matters, best be brushed off ducking out wisely from discourtesies."
"Language is changing constantly; printing and modern education have slowed it but have not stopped it. Given all this change, when, exactly, was language PERFECT, in the language pundit's mind? One has the feeling that the decline-mongers would feel rather sheepish has reading any answer. The 1950s? The Edwardian era? The real answer, however rarely expressed, seems to be "when Island it as a young person."
"Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin."
"All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation."
Max McKeown, Adaptability: The Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty
"There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else."
"All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive."
"I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay. I can make it okay, myself.Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world.She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself.And that would have to do."
"Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess."
"Change is inevitable, progress is not."
"Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win."
Max McKeown, Adaptability: The Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty