Improvise Adapt Overcome Quotes

#1. For years, a motto often repeated in the Canadian Armed Forces was "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." This was a fancy way of saying we should make do with whatever tools we were given." p. 119

Jody Mitic

#2. Improvise, Adapt and Overcome" - USMC, unofficial

U.S. Marine Corps

#3. If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Paula Cole

#4. Muse grabbed the envelope. "Everything in here?" Chamique frowned. "Oh, no, you did not just ask me that." Muse

Harlan Coben

#5. Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

Rachel Kushner

#6. It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

Jacqueline McKenzie

#7. You must improvise, adapt, and overcome.

Conor McGregor

#8. A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an 'improvise, adapt and overcome' mentality.

Bear Grylls

#9. The concept of harmony being preserved by the universe itself was obviously to his taste: he was getting old and was afraid of death.

Vadim Babenko