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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
  • Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

    Funny   Wise   Wisdom  
  • We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

    "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification" (speech),Washington, D.C., 12 Oct. 1985
  • 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
  • The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

  • You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

    Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.139, John Wiley & Sons
  • The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

    "The Book of Tea".
  • In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

  • It is not balance you need but adaptability.

    Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.

    Beautiful   Fun   Humble  
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”
  • People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will still be alive, and so will that great need and resource of ours called love.

    Loss   People   Mourning  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.

  • I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection of many years for Ernest Gaines, there was no question but that I would be a very faithful adapter..which I did do.

  • My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.

    War   Long   Enemy  
  • Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

    Honesty   Views   Denial  
  • Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

    "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.
  • Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.

  • I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our physical and psychological needs in the way that clothing does. We don't turn on the air-conditioning as we walk through the streets in high summer. Instead, we change the character of the clothing by which we are protected. Layering and changeability: this is the key.

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

    Beauty   Musician   Jazz  
    Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (2000). “From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance”, p.192, HeartMath
  • Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

    Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.13, Open Road Media
  • In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”
  • 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
  • Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.

    "Reshaping Your Corps". Interview with Bob Drury, www.menshealth.com. June 2, 2011.
  • I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

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

    Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.86, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
  • The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.

    Art   Eye   Autumn  
  • We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

    "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification" (speech),Washington, D.C., 12 Oct. 1985
  • Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.

    "Shockley's Race View called 'Senile, Fascist'". St. Petersburg Times, September 8, 1971.
  • A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

  • It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

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