Adaptation Quotes

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

- Reid Hoffman

"always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien."

- Leonard Nimoy

"Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle."

- Charlotte Dujardin

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game."

- Randy Pausch

"We can’t direct the wind but we can adjust the sails"

- Thomas S. Monson

"I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail."

- Ricky Skaggs

"The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you’re sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

""I'll let you in on a little secret that I learned here at Boot Camp. Shut up and do what you are told, and it works wonders.""

- Kathy from Ks.

""I have no hair and the food is good, my chief is female and haven't seen a lady get that mad!""

- Christina

""I now know how to iron my clothes and shine shoes. All the tools I need to be a street bum.""

- Christie U

""At first I did not think the girls were all that cute, but after time they have grown on me.""

- Andrea TX

"Things won’t go perfect. It’s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes."

- Michael Phelps

"I just go with the flow; I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it."

- Grace Jones

"Life is not the way it’s supposed to be, it’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."

- Virginia Satir

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

- Jimmy Dean

"Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change."

- Richard Branson

"When we are no longer able to change a situation — we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"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

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

- Peter Drucker

"If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."

- Ignacio Estrada

"The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything."

- Pat Summitt

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way."

- John Evans

"Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Don't be a prisoner of your own style!"

- Armin van Buuren

"Don't let your music be defined by genre labels"

- Bonobo

"No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'"

- Skrillex

"When we are no longer able to change a situation—just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer—we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Frankl

"Yesterday I was tough and direct; today I have to be charming. Basically, yesterday I was Hillary Clinton and today I am Bill."

- Leslie Knope

"Nursing: when you're not sure if it’s Saturday or Tuesday."

- Unknown