39 quotes found
“The measure of a persons strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.”
“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.”
“Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does.”
“The human mind a product of the brain controls our ability to adapt to a hostile or friendly environment. Human beings are composed of fields of energy, some of which forces are positive, and oth...”
“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.”
“Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.”
“Nothing that remains static is truly ever alive. Nature does not abide idleness. All energy sources of the natural world and the cosmos are in a constant motion, they are in a perpetual state of fl...”
“Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.”
“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 un...”
“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.”
“Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.”
“An adaptive mind has better learning capability.”
“Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.”
“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...”
“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...”
“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.”
“Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.”
“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 spe...”
