Adaptability To Change Quotes

#1. The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.

Charles Lindbergh

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

Debasish Mridha

#3. Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Peter Hilton

#4. Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

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

David Halberstam

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

Richard Rohr

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

Leon C. Megginson

#8. I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater.

Justine Bateman

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.

Marvin J. Ashton

#11. 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.

Kenneth I. Chenault

#12. In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

Gautama Buddha

#13. Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

Ken Wilber

#14. When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

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

Max McKeown

#16. The supernova is enabling a deeper revolution that is just beginning, spurred by learning platforms such as Udacity, edX, and Coursera, that will change the very metabolism and shape of higher education and, one hopes, lift the adaptability line in the way that

Thomas L. Friedman

#17. Change is inevitable, progress is not.

Max McKeown

#18. She was almost sixty and she had not been to London, or Paris, or Rome, and there was no going there now. Yes, she was balanced, as she had gotten into the habit of congratulating herself for being. But, she saw, she was balanced on a very narrow perch.

Jane Smiley

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

Charles Dickens

#20. Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.

William Bridges

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

Max McKeown

#22. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Patricia Ryan Madson

#23. Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. 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.

John Dewey

#25. The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.

P.J. Parker

#26. Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

Chris Bangle

#27. Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

Raheel Farooq

#28. As anywhere else, political instability provided an opportunity for local scores to be settled, for personal grievances to be aired, for heroes to be acclaimed and discarded, giving full reign to the fickle fortunes of war.

Charles Emmerson

#29. An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

Haile Selassie

#30. There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

#31. 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

#32. And the most successful people are those who accept, and adapt to, constant change. This adaptability requires a degree of flexibility and humility most people can't manage.

Paul Lutus

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.

Robert Watson

#36. Without her, part of my soul was missing. My heart had left with her, when she moved with Henry here, putting half the planet between us, making me wait for the rare phone calls.

Nicole Kiefer