Adaptation Quotes

"My old ways of Karate was not readily accepted by everyone. They thought it was too outdated and too crude – I think it was just too hard or maybe my training methods were too severe. Whatever it was, it was the way I learned and the way I taught. It was only later, when the Americans came to learn, that I changed my ways."

- Hohan Soken

"Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it’s about adapting to how things are."

- Gunnar Nelson

"Learning Kung fu has only one purpose: To train one’s reaction into a natural response. Such reaction is essential."

- Yuan Xiu Gang

"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

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."

- Bruce Lee

"Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch."

- Jon Stewart

"I was a little excited, but mostly blorft. ‘Blorft’ is an adjective I just made up that means ‘completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum’. I have been blorft every day for the past seven years."

- Tina Fey

"Now where is the code to shut off the bomb oh wait now I remember I wrote on my hand. (Sees hand on ground) there u are"

- Deadpool

"I always thought that tea was just gonna taste like hot brown water. And you know what? …I was right. It’s horrible. No, thank you."

- Ted

"Tea is horrible. Absolute garbage water. I don’t know why y’all do that."

- Ted

"Be honest with me. It’s a prank, right? The tea? Like when us tourist folks aren’t around, y’all know it tastes like garbage? You don’t love it. It’s pigeon sweat."

- Ted

"Y’all got a town here called “Tooting”?!"

- Ted

"As long as none of that tree piss gets in my mouth."

- Ted

"English breakfast to me is just a pile of a bunch of little, tiny piles, you know?"

- Ted

"We could rent a boat, float down the Thames. They spell it weird, but it is lovely."

- Ted

"That’s like hiding poop inside a smoothie of barf."

- Ted

"Dukes of Hazzard style or as you probably call it, Earls of Risk."

- Ted

"I take it right back to the counter bc there’s been a horrible mistake."

- Ted

"Whenever I text someone over here about money I still spell pounds L-B-S."

- Ted

"No, thank you! I hate tea. Tastes like a wet paper bag."

- Dr. Sharon

"Or half nine as you folks say over here for some goofy-ass reason."

- Ted

"Embrace the Uncertainty: I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card."

- Taylor Swift

"Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt."

- Victoria Ransom

"If there’s something you want to build, but the tech isn’t there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen."

- Dennis Crowley

"If you’re going to put your product in beta – put your business model in beta with it."

- Joe Kraus

"Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance."

"Sometimes you get and sometimes you get got."

"You can’t change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails."

"If you would have told me that I’d be drinking tea at 3 o’clock every day, about a year ago… I would have punched you in the mouth."

"We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails."