Adaptively Quotes

#1. The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#2. Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. Authentic leadership is leading adaptively from your core, choosing who you're most inspired to be to serve the greatest good in this moment.

Henna Inam

#4. We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies.

Neal Stephenson

#5. But let there be no doubt: he'd prefer to be handling those challenges adaptively because doing well is preferable. And because - and this is, without question, the most important theme of this entire book - kids do well if they can.

Ross W. Greene

#6. We all want our own way; some of us have the skills to get our own way adaptively, and some of us don't.

Ross W. Greene

#7. An explosive outburst - like other forms of maladaptive behavior - occurs when the cognitive demands being placed upon a person outstrip that person's capacity to respond adaptively.

Ross W. Greene

#8. Where are my manners? We haven't been properly introduced. I'm Surah.

H.D. Gordon

#9. There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.

Mack Sennett

#10. I just try to keep healthy more so than trying to be thin.

Margot Robbie

#11. There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

Paul Auster

#13. It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

Jeremy Taylor

#14. It was all too easy. It was perfect as nothing else in her life had ever been, their bodies moving in harmony as if they had waltzed together a thousand times before. Good Lord, he could dance.
-Lillian's thoughts about Marcus

Lisa Kleypas

#15. I first got sick after I had my daughter, Kimberly, 21 years ago. I'd always been energetic and never had any serious medical problems. Then I got very sick with a high fever. They told me I had mononucleosis. I became pregnant right away with Sean, and after he was born, I never seemed to recover.

Alana Stewart

#16. One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

Michael Shannon

#17. A warm arm enfolds me like a shield around my shoulder and turns me toward the side of the stage.
"Stay with me," says a familiar masculine whisper from above my head. Even over the yelling of the mob and the roaring of the waves, something unfurls in my chest at the sound of that voice.

Susan Ee