Adapt Quotes

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

~ Lisa Lutz

In with the new, out with the old.’ That’s what we’re told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.

~ Fennel Hudson

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!

~ Bill Maher

Alterations in the environment place us under personal stress. Changes in our routines and the physical, social, cultural, and economic environment forces us to make decisive decisions, we cannot continue our robotic ways. We must adapt to fresh encounters with the peripheral world. Variation in our external domain brings about shocking revolutions of our internal realm of thoughts and emotions.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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.

~ David Lynch

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.

~ Steven Magee

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When I was younger, I thought my task was to forge ahead and succeed as an individual. But growing older has helped me realize that our success lies in our relationships— with the family we are born into, the friends we make, the people we fall in love with, and the children we have. Sometimes we struggle, sometimes we adapt, and at other times we set a course for others to follow. We are all leaders and followers in our lives. We are constantly learning from and teaching one another. We learn, too, that the most important work is not done by those who seem the most important, but by those who care the most.

~ Caroline Kennedy

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.

~ Mike Norton

The world doesn’t change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can’t control fate, but I’m sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.

~ Caroline George

Well we are nothing if not re-inventive. With every life experience we learn what to not do ever again and how to adapt to our current situations. We are always learning about ourselves and changing. I seriously don’t know anyone that has it all figured out, and if there is I want to punch them in the face.

~ Allison B. Levine

I learned to accept that everything happened in her time. When you live in the moment, it’s easier to wait. When you trust and have faith, you just know that whatever it is will come when it will come. Your master will always bring everything to you at the perfect time.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you dream for perfect life ahead, you may not get a fresh start always.Mend a little,bend a little. Find what you have, where you are. Adapt , improvise, move on.

~ Rd

Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are.

~ Debasish Mridha

There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency transmitting utility meters. For these reasons I did not shield my home and took the route of adapting my body to the toxic electromagnetic environment.

~ Steven Magee

Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ( “If he doesn't play ball “ )

~ Erik Pevernagie

#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.

~ Will Advise

Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

~ Richard Matheson

A hard lesson learned recently; when you are not making an income, you must surrender to some out comes.

~ Robert Wesley Miller

We can adapt to changing circumstances with a resolved spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

~ Robert Herjavec

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

~ Ian Frazier

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

~ Ian Frazier

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

~ H. G. Wells

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

~ Clarence Day

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

~ Dhani Jones

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

~ Stephen Hawking

As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

~ Michael Greger

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

~ Diane Ackerman

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

~ Kevin Kelly

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

~ Joaquim Barbosa

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

~ Marc Andreessen

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

~ Giorgio Agamben

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

~ Fernando Torres

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

~ Wendy Carlos

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.

~ Nolan Gould