Adaptation Quotes

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

- Ricky Skaggs

"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day."

- Michael Jordan

"Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, 'By God, I will not change, I will not have this.' Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit."

- Nick Nolte

"And the most successful people are those who accept, and adapt to constant change. This adaptability requires a degree of flexibility and humility most people can't manage."

- Paul Lutus

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher."

- Chinese Proverb

"When we allow ourselves to adapt to different situations, life is easier."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

- H. G. Wells

"You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."

- Jean M. Auel

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"Action and adaptability create opportunity."

- Garrison Wynn

"Adaptability is the simple secret of survival."

- Jessica Hagedorn

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It's the end you're after."

- Anthony Robbins

"The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend."

- Alice Duer Miller

"But in practice master plans fail –because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community."

- Christopher Alexander

"As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal."

- Robin Sharma

"Expect the unexpected, and whenever possible, be the unexpected."

- Lynda Barry

"Dealing with it is the operative word. I found myself at seven years not battling it. Not struggling with it. Not suffering from it. Not breaking under the burden of it, but dealing with it."

- Michael J. Fox

"In addition, of course, they would be taken to a bath and in the bath vestibule they would be ordered to leave their leather coats, their Romanov sheepskin coats, their woolen sweaters, their suits of fine wool, their felt cloaks, their leather boots, their felt boots (for, after all, these were no illiterate peasants this time, but the Party elite—editors of newspapers, directors of trusts and factories, responsible officials in the provincial Party committees, professors of political economy, and, by the beginning of the thirties, all of them understood what good merchandise was)."

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else"

- Stephen Hawking

"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else."

- Stephen Hawking

"And that's the way the cookie crumbles."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Don’t panic, organize!"