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• 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

  Space, Design, Kind

  Donald A. Norman (2007). “Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things”, p.198, Basic Books

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• Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.

  Gloria Steinem

  Courses

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

  Jessica Raine

  Thinking, People, Faces

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Wings, People, Forever

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• To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

  Alvin Toffler

  Individual, Shock, Avert

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

  Robert McCrum

  Communication, Mean, Microsoft

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• 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

  Change, Needs, Clients

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• I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

  Heather Donahue

  Thinking, Danger, Seems

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• I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Marine, World

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• We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

  Daniel Wolpert

  Brain, Movement, Reason

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• Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

  Sven Birkerts

  Dream, Reading, Book

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

  Saul Alinsky

  Political, Tactics, Shifting

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.

  John Hallock, Jr.

  Communication, Men, Views

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• America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Ocean, Moving, America

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  People, World, Hardest

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• The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

  Ronald Fisher

  Programming, Adapted, Organisms

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• Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Real, War, Fighting

  "Remarks about the Military Draft" by Margaret Mead (June 1968) as quoted in "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views" edited by Rhoda Metraux (pp. 35-36), 1979.

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• 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

  Eagles, Bird, Territory

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• It’s a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

  Olivier Martinez

  Culture, Matter, Way

  "The General". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2015.

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• I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

  Julia Leigh

  Believe, Realizing

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• 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

  New York, Paris, Roots

  "French connected". Interview with Marianne Gray, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• 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

  Moving, School, Son

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• 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

  Thinking, Next Steps, Should

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• [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Winning, One Direction

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• One of the best attributes of human beings is that they're adaptable; one of the worst attributes of human beings is they are adaptable. They adapt and start to tolerate abuses, they adapt to being involved themselves in abuses, they adapt to adversity and they continue on.

  Julian Assange

  Adversity, Abuse, Attributes

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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