Adaptability Quotes

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

~ Bruce Lee

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

~ Debasish Mridha

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

~ Richard Rohr

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

~ Charles Dickens

Change is never convenient. I'm talking about acceptance here. Don't be misguided into thinking change is going to be easy. If you're facing change then you're challenging a norm, your norm. You've adapted to that and now it's being challenged. It's being turned inside out and upside down. You may feel that can't quite find your footing. It's all foreign. You may feel lost in it, quite unsure of yourself, unsure of what to do, or how to do it. Don't worry. Everything new was once like this, and you made it through. You'll find a way. Have faith. Keep hope in your heart. If you want to get to the other side of anything you need to work through and endure change. It can be awkward and uncomfortable. Change is never comfortable. It takes time and patience. It takes self-love and acceptance. It takes grace and self-forgiveness. Take it one step at a time. Break it down. You'll make it to the other side.

~ Akiroq Brost

Nothing that remains static is truly ever alive. Nature does not abide idleness. All energy sources of the natural world and the cosmos are in a constant motion, they are in a perpetual state of fluctuation. All forms of living must make allowances for the seasons of change. The Earth itself is twirling through space, spinning on its axis analogous to a child’s top. The unpredictable forces of instability brought about by a combination of motion, change, and flux propels the miraculous dynamism of existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Change is essential for survival. All life forms must adapt to their fluctuating circumstances. All form of life result from the process of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance. The universe is in a constant state of chaos. We each have chaos implanted into our bones. Nature wires all of us for change.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

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.

~ Philip Zaleski

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.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

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

~ Andrew Zolli

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

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes.And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.

~ Howard Zinn

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

~ Debasish Mridha

The human mind – a product of the brain – controls our ability to adapt to a hostile or friendly environment. Human beings are composed of fields of energy, some of which forces are positive, and other force fields are negative. We can use constructive reason to penetrate only a limited segment of the human mind, which projects discernible logical thought process. A person’s mind also houses dark areas of reality, the mysterious apparatus that eludes the grasp of human reason. We can never express the truth of a person with a precise lucid principle. A person must travel beyond realism in order to explore every facet of his or her being and live his or her most cherished dreams.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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.

~ Roseville Nidea

Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.

~ Pearl Zhu

An adaptive mind has better learning capability.

~ Pearl Zhu

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

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.

~ Angelica Hopes

Language is changing constantly; printing and modern education have slowed it but have not stopped it. Given all this change, when, exactly, was language PERFECT, in the language pundit's mind? One has the feeling that the decline-mongers would feel rather sheepish has reading any answer. The 1950s? The Edwardian era? The real answer, however rarely expressed, seems to be when Island it as a young person.

~ Robert Lane Greene

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.

~ Leonardo Donofrio

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

~ Leon C. Megginson

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

~ Max Mckeown

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

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

~ Ralph Steadman

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

~ German Proverb

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

I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay. I can make it okay, myself.Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world.She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself.And that would have to do.

~ L.j. Smith

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

~ David Halberstam

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

~ Charles W. Colson

Change is inevitable, progress is not.

~ Max Mckeown

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?

~ Sloane Crosley

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.

~ F. Matthias Alexander

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

~ Max Mckeown