Adaptability Quotes

"When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust."

"One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire."

"If you want to try new challenges you have to adapt."

"To live in harmony with the ways of the world is wisdom."

Thiruvalluvar

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

Jimmy Dean

"Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything."

"Be water, my friend."

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water... Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”

“He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.”

“Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.”

“Just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.”

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”

“The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.”

“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”

“Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.”

“One does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.”

“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”

“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.”

“Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”

“Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.”

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

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

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

Confucius

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler