Adaptability Quotes

• Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

  Stephen Hawking

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's a lot easier to get your way if you have more than one way.

  Jennifer James

  Way, Easier, Ifs

  Jennifer James (1988). “Women and the Blues: Passions That Hurt Passions That Heal”, Harpercollins

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• Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

  Nolan Ryan

  Change, Success, Leadership

  Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Intelligent, Survival

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• We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Twitter post from May 11, 2010

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• The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Book of Tea".

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• The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

  Charles Darwin

  Survival, Important, Factors

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• 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

  Happiness, Life Changing, Lying

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• Action and adaptability create opportunity.

  Garrison Wynn

  Opportunity, Action

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• Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.

  John Wooden

  Attitude, Able, Given

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.139, John Wiley & Sons

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• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

  Bruce Lee

  Blank Mind, Empty Mind, Water

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.138, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Change, Inspiring, Struggle

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Ignorant

  "23 Warning Signs of a Toxic Friend" by Ann Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

  Nolan Ryan

  Ability To Change, Enjoy, Adapting To Change

  Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• It is not balance you need but adaptability.

  Erwin McManus

  Balance, Needs

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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• Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Worst

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• Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Empty Mind, Water

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Disappointment, Adversity, Impact

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• To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

  Louis L'Amour

  Rooms, Made, Died

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “Last of the Breed”, p.161, Bantam

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• A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Confidence, Mistake, Women

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