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  • 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 species would survive.

    Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.67, Canongate Books
  • Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

    Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
  • I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

  • The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

    "The Book of Tea".
  • But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

    Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.18, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

  • Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But once you've found a solution, there is no need to continue the adaptive behavioral parrying, which is bioenergetically very expensive to maintain. We are built to find answers, then hang on to them as long as we can.

    Long   East   Needs  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

    Change   Nature   Natural  
    HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.54, Monkfish Book Publishing
  • Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

    Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
  • For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.

    Jobs   Party   Moving  
    Larry Niven, John Brunner, Jack Vance (1973). “Three trips in time and space: original novellas of science fiction”
  • We should seek the greatest value of our action.

    "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.
  • The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

  • Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18
  • My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.

    Character   Style   World  
  • Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”
  • The key to success is often the ability to adapt

  • Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  • However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

    "Prof Stephen Hawking too unwell to deliver own 70th birthday speech" by Nick Collins, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 8, 2012.
  • The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.223, Tuttle Publishing
  • My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

    Science   Simple   Goal  
    "Stephen Hawking's Universe". Book by John Boslough, 1985.
  • People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

    "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.
  • All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing
  • The ability to adapt is everything!

    Denis Waitley (1987). “Being the Best”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
  • The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

  • Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

    People   Inspire   Wish  
    "Rhea Seehorn of Better Call Saul: Learning from Loved Ones". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

  • Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

    Class   Play   Feelings  
  • All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18
  • To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

    Art   Creativity   Hands  
    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1996). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention”, Harpercollins
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