Adaptation Quotes

"We can’t control the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sails."

- Jimmy Dean

"It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence."

- Alyson Noel 'Evermore'

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts."

- George Eliot

"You know, kid, in times like this my buddy Timon here says: you got to put your behind in your past."

- Pumbaa

"I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn’t have before."

- Padmasree Warrior

"Another key trend is that consumers live on their smartphones and expect the same level of service from a small business that they receive from Amazon, Uber, or Domino’s – informational transparency, automated communications, and seamless interactivity."

- Joe Walsh

"Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message."

- Indra Nooyi

"Only fools and dead men don’t change their minds. Fools won’t, and dead men can’t."

- John Henry Patterson

"You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new."

- Steve Jobs

"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."

- Lewis Carroll

"This weather in Paris is too hot for me. So I put the bed on the balcony. It was a bit rainy, so my neighbor put it inside because there was a lot of water on the balcony. When I came back to the room, I put it back outside."

- Mykhaylo Kokhan

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"You gotta bloom where you're planted."

- Dolly Parton

"If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward”"

- John Wooden

"In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom."

- Buddha

"The success of marriage comes not in finding the “right” person, but in the ability of both partners to adjust to the real person they inevitably realize they married."

- John Fischer

"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow."

- Lao Tzu

"As those move easiest who have learned to dance."

- Alexander Pope

"They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom."

- Confucius

"Traditional advice says to find your passion and decide where you want to be in 10 years and then go after it. But that is wrong because the world is constantly changing and we are constantly changing. Your identity is not found through introspection but rather emerges through experimentation."

- Reid Hoffman

"We cannot control the direction of the winds, but we can always adjust our sails."

- Jimmy Dean

"You can’t separate diabetes from your life. You have to weave the diabetes into your routine and make it part of your life, just like brushing your teeth or getting up to go to work in the morning. It’s just part of the fabric of what you do and who you are. I think if you take that attitude, it’s much easier to live with."

- Father

"Know that the diabetes is going to be there forever, first of all. And then it’s not like you have to worry forever because if you do the treatments good and you’re working with your child, your life is going to be normal, very normal."

- Mother

"Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how."

- Harriet Tubman

"Don't quit, adapt."

- Unknown

"The best time to call me is email."

"अगर जिंदगी में कुछ पाना हो, तो तरीके बदलो इरादे नहीं ।"

"Be open to change. Change is inevitable, and it can be a positive thing. Embrace new experiences and don’t be afraid to step outside your comfort zone."

- Anonymous