Adaptability Quotes

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

When you reach a new club, having an open mind is key to be able to adapt as quickly as possible.

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

The hard and stiff will be broken.The soft and supple will prevail.

Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discovery who you really are?

Make your plans to fit the circumstances.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

Change everything except your loves.

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

I'm just right down the middle, man, ... It doesn't matter to me. I'd love him (Phil Jackson) as a coach. It doesn't matter to me. If they want him here, he'll be here. If he wants to come, he'll come, he'll coach and we'll go from there.

For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.

The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.