39 quotes found
“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 ...”
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
“All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.”
“Culture is nested in context, not genes.”
“There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.”
“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 wit...”
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.”
“Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.”
“Change is inevitable, progress is not.”
“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?”
“One of the most remarkable of man's characteristics is his capacity for becoming used to conditions of almost any kind, whether good or bad, both in the self and in the environment, and once he has...”
“Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.”
“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.”
“Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.”
“The measure of a person’s strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.”
“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 o...”
“Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.”
“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...”
