Best 65 quotes in «adaptability quotes» category

Human nature is water, not stone.

He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Marketing is a never-ending story. It’s about perpetual motion where innovation plays the lead role.

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.

It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it. Here is a quick test: If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant. Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation. It will do both of you good.

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.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does.

In the face of the world's harshness and danger, organisms of any kind develop protection — a coat of armor, a rigid system, a comforting ritual. For the short term, it may work, but for the long term it spells disaster. People weighed down by a system and inflexible ways of doing things cannot move fast, cannot sense or adapt to change. They lumber around more and more slowly until they go the way of the brontosaurus. Learn to move fast and adapt or you will be eaten. The best way to avoid this fate is to assume formlessness. No predator alive can attack what it cannot see.

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 with a flexible, patient heart and proficient action gets best quality and value. As for the restless grumbles raving from unconsciousness of complexity of matters, best be brushed off ducking out wisely from discourtesies.

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 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.

Take in every detail of your environment and adapt.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

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

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.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

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

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.

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

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

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

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

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

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

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

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.

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

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.