#Adaptability Quotes

“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.”

“The chameleon Love can feed on the air”

“All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.”

“The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.”

“If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.”

“Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.”

“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.”

“A good wit will make use of anything.”

“The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.”

“Be firm on principle but flexible on method.”

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

“Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.”

“People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.”

“The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.”

“The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees.”

“If the results don't scream: "Do this again!" Try something new.”

“Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .”

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

“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.”

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

“In order for things to change you, you must be able to change.”

“I learned to park outside of Denny's because it's 24 hours. I made a deal at a 7-Eleven with a mailman so I could get my mail delivered there.”

“You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.”

“The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.”

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

“Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.”

“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.”

“Change everything except your loves.”

“The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be, like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'”

“Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.”

“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.”

“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”

“Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.”

“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”

“I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.”

“There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.”

“Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.”

“The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.”

“The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.”

“We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.”

“a person can get used to anything if given enough time”

“To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.”

“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.”

“How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.”

“None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.”