Top 100 Adaptable Quotes
#1. The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.
Ming-Dao Deng
#2. wasn't adaptable. She needed the city. She needed congestion. She needed masses of people where she could lose herself and simply exist, anonymously, without the constant scrutiny of others. Courtney
Laura Griffin
#3. You don't want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That's why I love the bass - it's adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it.
Andy Rourke
#4. The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.
Donald A. Norman
#5. The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us more adaptable. Some changes threaten, or disappoint other members, who may try to resist the change, or punish someone for changing.
Terri E Apter
#6. I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.
Heather Donahue
#7. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.
C.S. Lewis
#8. We are all adaptable to changes and self worth is priceless. adapt yourself to be independent (from people, addictions, etc..) and you'll realize how strong you truly are on your own.
Abraham Ruiz
#9. 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
#10. I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
Julie Delpy
#11. If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.
Gabe Newell
#12. The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.
Ruth Benedict
#13. There has been a lot of movement in my family, but in a way, it has been great. It has made me adaptable. I can plonk myself anywhere.
Marie-Chantal Claire
#14. Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.
Brian Regan
#15. Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. It
Margaret Atwood
#16. Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
Warren Ellis
#17. For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.
Ismail Kadare
#18. The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.
Neil Postman
#19. We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.
Daniel Wolpert
#20. I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.
Moby
#22. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. - Charles Darwin
Aleatha Romig
#23. We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#24. I'm pretty adaptable and can adjust to any environment.
Jennie Finch
#25. It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.
Olivier Martinez
#26. If we have learned anything, we have learned this: it is not the strongest of the races that survives, or the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Thus only the Aeduan race will survive the
Jeff Wheeler
#27. The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.
Ronald Fisher
#28. We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#29. I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
Winston Churchill
#31. Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather ... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
Dan Buettner
#32. You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.
Neil Peart
#33. An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.
Gary Hamel
#34. I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.
Craig Venter
#35. Most hackers are young because young people tend to be adaptable. As long as you remain adaptable, you can always be a good hacker.
Emmanuel Goldstein
#36. Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.
Kyle MacLachlan
#37. Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle.
Rod Serling
#38. In time of macromental change, only the adaptable survive.
Jeffrey Fry
#39. I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.
Tommy Wiseau
#40. Flow. Be adaptable. Be sensitive like water, feel the other so you can attune and harmonize with your partner.
John Friend
#41. It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.
Charles Darwin
#42. I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.
David Cameron
#43. I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.
Marie-Chantal Claire
#44. When the world is predictable you need smart people.
When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.
Henry Mintzberg
#45. 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
#46. We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society ... We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.
Yvon Chouinard
#47. There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.
Jennifer Ehle
#48. If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.
Alexander Kluge
#49. By Vietnam, the Jeep had given way to the helicopter, and it is hard to imagine a modern army fighting a war without this supremely adaptable workhorse.
Saul David
#50. He believed that there was need in the world for a class freed from the handicap of law and morality, a class acutely adaptable and immoral; a class bent on achieving, not the equality of all men, but the production, at the top, of the superman.
H.L. Mencken
#51. Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.
Gloria Steinem
#52. I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.
Julia Leigh
#53. According to the crazy, bug-eating guys on those survival shows, human beings are the most adaptable creatures on earth- we can get used to just about anything. Doesn't mean it's okay. I mean, who wants to get used to eating grubs and collecting maple leaves for toiler paper? No thanks.
Sarah Ockler
#54. Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#55. We're an adaptable species," she said, refusing to be stopped, "but it's wrong to inflict suffering just because your victim can endure it." "Learn
Octavia E. Butler
#57. LTO ultrium is adaptable and scalable backup tape format and its technology is continuously enhanced by its manufacturers to address the growing needs and requirements of the server environments of midrange to the enterprise class.
Sean Paul
#58. We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.
Mark Twight
#59. Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.
Simon Sinek
#60. The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.
Ajahn Sumedho
#61. It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.
Paulo Freire
#62. Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.
Henna Inam
#63. In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.
Jim Highsmith
#64. She wanted to know all about me, what I was like, who I was. I worried, there wasn't really much to tell. I had no preferences. I ate anything, wore anything, sat where you told me, slept where you said. I was infinitely adaptable.
Janet Fitch
#65. We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competitiveness and prosperity.
David Blunkett
#66. The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#67. The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.
Deepak Chopra
#68. LIFE CHANGES AHEAD? Darwin never said it was the strongest who survive; he never said it was the smartest either. He said it was the most adaptable. So, lets embrace our next life change with energy and euphoria. Lets make it positive and enlightening like never before. Carpe Diem
Lee Johnson
#69. The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.
James Lovegrove
#70. What matters is that she becomes an engaged lifelong learner and an adaptable thinker who can thrive in any environment and is comfortable dealing with other cultures.
Ben Green
#71. Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
Evelyn Glennie
#72. Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.
Laozi
#73. The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
Peter Ustinov
#74. Employers say they want people who can think creatively, who can innovate, who can communicate well, work in teams and are adaptable and self-confident.
Ken Robinson
#75. Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.
Bob Ainsworth
#76. The latest scientific studies have revealed extraordinary findings. The brain is much more flexible and adaptable than previously thought. It can evolve and creatively work around limitations and nullify them.
James Morcan
#77. The Lean Startup works only if we are able to build an organization as adaptable and fast as the challenges it faces. This
Eric Ries
#78. What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
Gary Hamel
#79. There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.
Francis Spufford
#80. I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#81. Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.
Alan G. Poindexter
#82. Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.
Jim Elliot
#83. I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really.
Kate Moss
#84. The natural world is so adaptable ... So adaptable you wonder what's natural.
M T Anderson
#85. He was something in between. Steadfast in pursuit but adaptable. Charming yet respectful. In other words, complex.
Priscilla West
#86. English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.
Robert McCrum
#88. Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.
George Takei
#89. When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#90. They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.
Jim Cole
#91. Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.
Daniel Kish
#92. Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#93. It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the centre of the circle to an indefinite point outside its circumference.
K.J. Parker
#94. I'm adaptable. A nomad, my mom always says."
Zoe raised an eyebrow.
"Your mom?"
"Well I wasn't spawned.
Katie Reus
#95. Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.
David Cameron
#96. To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
Gary Hamel
#97. I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.
Jessica Raine
#98. Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
Robert Shea
#99. 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
#100. Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.
Arthur Golden
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