Adaptation Quotes

"The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists."

- Nikola Tesla

""The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.""

- James Yorke

"Adjust to your surroundings, because the world don't wait for you."

- Ryan Garcia

"The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it flow with it . . . and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"[Businesses] rarely come up for air to re-evaluate how they are selling. This means that current sales practices, process, and organisational structure may in fact be hindering their growth more than any external factor they believe they are facing."

- Tiffani Bova, Salesforce Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist

"Consumers now expect to be able to get things, talk to someone, and do what they want at any time. That's led to a divide. Some companies and products provide such a perfect, seamless experience that it has raised the bar. In fact, it's so easy and seamless that we kind of forget to be impressed. But what they're doing is making the ones that don't deliver that kind of great experience all the more obvious."

- Susan Weinschenk, Chief Behavioural Scientist and CEO, The Team W

"Customer experience professionals love to think about their customer journey maps, but these can be very rigid. How many consumers follow the same exact path to get to their outcome? Very few. I believe consumer experiences need to be far more dynamic than they are today — not just personalised, which we've been talking about for a few years. After all, companies can leverage data about customers in the moment — what they did in the last 24 minutes or hours, not in the last 24 days."

- Tom Puthiyamadam, Digital Service and BXT Leader, PwC

"We've been talking about the importance of customer-centricity for some time. But until now retailers have lacked both the technology and the mandate to connect marketing, sales, service, and commerce systems to enable a 360-degree view of the customer. Now that relevant and personalised engagement has emerged as a key differentiator, retailers will finally make the investments to deliver on the promise of putting the customer at the center of everything they do."

- Rob Garf, Vice President, Industry Strategy & Insights, Salesforce

"You don't need to know how the technology of a microwave works to use it — it is simply a tool. We're now entering the same phase with AI, thanks to the huge influx of no-code, point‑and-click tools. AI will become a widely used utility by everyone, regardless of technical background. As a result, most of the AI applications in the coming years will be built by people with little or no AI training."

- Vitaly Gordon, Vice President, Data Science and Engineering, Einstein, Salesforce

"AI is about enabling machines to augment humans — in other words, to complement human skills — rather than merely replace them. In most cases, AI's skills are different to a human's, so we are moving towards a symbiosis of the two."

- Robin Bordoli, CEO, Figure Eight

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"We learn that the program won’t work when we try to adapt it to our life. We must learn to adapt our life to the program."

- Narcotics Anonymous

"She stood in the storm, & and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Feel your way through the water. Don't fight it."

- Mark Young

"Sensitive people may once have been our weather predictors, spiritual advisers, and trackers. Take that same trait and apply it to a teacher, a stock market trader, or a CEO, and you can see how sensitive people are still built to thrive today — even if society doesn’t think so."

- Jenn Granneman

"If you hit a wrong note then make it right by what you play afterwards."

- Joe Pass

"All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."

- Puppet Master

"There are certain things one can’t bear without changing one’s clothes."

- Chiriko Tsurumi

"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

- Gilda Radner

"You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Reset, readjust, refocus, restart."

"You can't smooth out the surf, but you can learn to ride the waves."

"Life flows like water—don’t resist the current."

"Like water, be adaptable and always move forward."

"Happy Birthday to my adaptable and innovative daughter! You have an uncanny ability to adjust to life's changes with grace and creativity. May your year be filled with exciting opportunities and brilliant ideas."

"In Omnia Paratus | "Ready for Anything""

"Cheers to 75! You've mastered the art of aging gracefully— primarily by pretending you remember everything. Let's celebrate!"

"Turning 75? Don’t panic—you’ve still got it! The hard part is remembering where it is."

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