Best 65 quotes in «adaptability quotes» category

The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

Take in every detail of your environment and adapt.

The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased state.

The measure of a person’s strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.

The more adaptable to change you become, the more you practice acting with fear and without courage, the less those will be a distraction to you. Instead of being clouded by fear, worry, and stress, you will be able to see beyond. You will see new opportunities, new potential, both in the moment and in yourself. You will no longer stand in your own way. You will no longer be allowing fear to confine your potential.

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 become used to such conditions they seem to him both right and natural. This capacity is a boon when it enables him to adapt himself to conditions which are desirable, but it may prove a great danger when the conditions are undesirable. When his sensory appreciation is untrustworthy, it is possible for him to become so familiar with seriously harmful conditions of misuse of himself that these malconditions will feel right and comfortable.

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?

The condition in extreme is identifiable but the less obvious version of addiction is still painful and arguably worse because we simply adapt to living in pain.

The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage.

The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change when it is to their advantage.

The sky does not despair when a star falls; it makes room for a new one.

The ocean doesn't weep when it loses one drop, it just makes room for another one.

Watching the painter painting And all the time, the light is changing And he keeps painting That bit there, it was an accident But he's so pleased It's the best mistake, he could make And it's my favourite piece It's just great --- excerpt from the song "An Architect's Dream" from the album Aerial

When change is brewing in your life, open your eyes, and if they are already open, open them wider.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

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.

Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time;

You can crush a rose; all it will do is give off perfume.

You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.

You humans have a certain talent for adaptability--at least in the short term.

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

It's a lot easier to get your way if you have more than one way.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Adaptability is a most desirable habit or quality for success in life.

Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.

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.

Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.

Adaptability is not just a soft skill, but a hard capability.

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 is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

Artificial intelligence is defined as the branch of science and technology that is concerned with the study of software and hardware to provide machines the ability to learn insights and patterns from data and the environment, and the ability to adapt automatically to changing situations with high precision, accuracy and speed.

An adaptive mind has better learning capability.

As anywhere else, political instability provided an opportunity for local scores to be settled, for personal grievances to be aired, for heroes to be acclaimed and discarded, giving full reign to the fickle fortunes of war.

Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.

Culture is nested in context, not genes.