Adaptable Quotes

• 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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• 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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• When the world is predictable you need smart people.
  When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Smart, People, Needs

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• 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

  Simple, Thinking, Meditation

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.

  Brian Regan

  Should, Rate Of Change, Never Stop Learning

  "1/1: Interview with Brian Regan, President of Semper International". Interview with Deborah Corn, www.printmediacentr.com.

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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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• Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.

  Daniel Kish

  Ignorance, Mind, Matter

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• 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

  Believe, Unions, Britain

  David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• 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

  Brain, Neuroplasticity, Computer

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• 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

  Events, May, Outcomes

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.47, The Mountaineers Books

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• Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Clever, Turns

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• I'm pretty adaptable and can adjust to any environment.

  Jennie Finch

  Environment

  "Q&A WITH JENNIE FINCH: Longtime face of softball determined to get sport back into Games". Interview with Jill Painter, www.dailynews.com. July 23, 2012.

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• 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

  Strong, Opposites, People

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2012.

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• 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

  Focus, Effort, Vision

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2012

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• It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

  Charles Darwin

  Strongest

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• 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

  New Experiences, Brain, Age

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• The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Followers, Tao, Circumstances

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• I'm always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I'm able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren't flexible I sure wouldn't be making films this many years as I've been doing it. I've been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that's hard. That ain't easy.

  Spike Lee

  Years, Mind, Trying

  "Spike Lee Talks ‘Chi-Raq’ Kismet, Amazon Deal, Obama & Why Film Is Like Sports – AwardsLine". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. January 8, 2016.

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• In my talks in organizations around the world I ask, "What kind of leadership do we need now?" The most common responses are "adaptable," "flexible," and "innovative." This isn't surprising, in light of how fast and overwhelming is the pace of change in our world.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Our World, Light, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Flow. Be adaptable. Be sensitive like water, feel the other so you can attune and harmonize with your partner.

  John Friend

  Water, Flow, Sensitive

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• One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.

  Annalee Newitz

  Rocks, Dna, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Jesus, Good Life, Trying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Technology, Class, Needs

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• It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Banking, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

  "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 2, 1968.

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• The knitted jumper comes in different trends, colours, shapes, and is adaptable in various ways when wearing. But there are also different noticeable marks of Sonia Rykiel brand, like black stripes which are very recognisable too.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Black, Stripes, Different

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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