Adaptation Quotes

"Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise."

- George Gershwin

"Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise"

- George Gershwin

"Take what you are given and make the most of it."

- James

"When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower."

- Alexander Den Heijer

"You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt."

- Michael B. Jordan

"If we lose a game, I change up what I did that day, like if I eat something that day I will not eat the same thing again the next game day."

- Kliff Kingsbury

"Don't worry if you're having a hard time adjusting from 2020 to 2021. What we've all been through has been different to say the least. A new year brings new knowledge."

- Torron-Lee Dewar

"Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life."

- Srikumar Rao

"I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago."

- David Knopfler

"For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water."

- Victoria Beckham

"I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well."

- General Robert E. Cushman, Jr., USMC

"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

- Nikita Khrushchev

"You can’t simply enter [the octagon] and beat someone on instinct; you can’t go in with the same approach over and over because it worked last time."

- Georges St-Pierre

"Be like water"

- JakeRhodes

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."

- Marcus Aurelius

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"We don't 'move on' from grief. We move forward with it."

- Nora McInerny

"The loss changes you permanently, I think, but what you learn is, first, how to accommodate the loss in your own life, to keep going, and to find peace and even joy in your life again; and, second, to learn to honor that person's life and the legacy of her life. Grief is not something that ever goes away. You just learn to accommodate it so you can move forward in your life and over time it gets less intense, at least most of the time."

- David Baxter

"You bring the person you love inside you. That is how you cope. You make him or her live within you. The whole experience I had with my children is in me. It is nowhere else I can see. I can see a photograph, I can feel sad, I can read a poem, but the experience of having them within myself is what matters."

- Carlos Fuentes

"You won't get over it. I don't believe we ever 'get over' the loss of someone we've loved so much. But you'll do something much better. Gradually, and in your own time, you'll make peace with yourself and then you'll make peace with your loss. And you'll go on from there."

- Muriel Franzblau

"Grieving is a matter of relearning how to be in the world. The world is full of reminders of the person--the foods they liked, their favorite chair. At first, these may seem too painful to think about. But if you reach through the pain and let your mind go there, memories can be a comfort; they make it feel as if the separation isn't as final."

- Thomas Attig, PhD

"Resistance is futile."

- The Borg

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

- Richard Branson

"Adaptability isn’t about compromising your values; it’s about staying resilient and learning."

- Indra Nooyi

"Adaptability is about mastering change rather than merely surviving it."

- Harold Geneen

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly."

- Henry Miller

"Adaptable, Adjustable and Flexible"

"Swim calmly through the currents of change, like the ever-graceful sea turtle"

- Unknown

"Ride the currents of life like a sea turtle in the ocean"

- Unknown

"Ride the currents of life with the ease of a sea turtle"

- Unknown