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  • Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. -- Fred Perry
  • All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. -- Bruce Lee
  • Adaptability is key. -- Marc Andreessen
  • Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. -- Erica Jong
  • Adaptability is the simple secret of survival. -- Jessica Hagedorn
  • Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment. -- Marvin J. Ashton
  • In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. -- Bill Bryson
  • Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education. -- Peter Hilton
  • Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time. -- John Wooden
  • We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. -- William Ralph Inge
  • Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. -- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
  • Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. -- Tim Minchin
  • You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to. -- Gary Hamel
  • The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage. -- Charles Darwin
  • Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. -- Socrates
  • My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress. -- Anwar Sadat
  • In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. -- Thomas Merton
  • In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. -- Winston Churchill
  • All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. -- Yann Martel
  • Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures. -- Anthony Principi
  • The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas. -- Thomas Sowell
  • The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs. -- William J. Brennan
  • True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength. -- Kyuzo Mifune
  • Adaptability is crucial to working on Glee because every day is adapting to something. Because we're doing a different genre of music, doing a different type of scene with a different scene partner, recording and dance rehearsals... no day is like another. -- Kevin McHale
  • I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection of many years for Ernest Gaines, there was no question but that I would be a very faithful adapter..which I did do. -- Romulus Linney
  • We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style each team plays. That?s going to help us come tournament time because the game in the Pac-10 is different from the Big East and we know how to adapt to the different styles. I?m glad I had that opportunity. -- Allan Ray
  • I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel. -- Emma Thompson
  • We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances -- W. R. Inge
  • The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness. -- Paul Rand
  • There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps. -- James F. Amos
  • When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured. -- Ellen Key
  • Action and adaptability create opportunity. -- Garrison Wynn
  • Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability. -- Raheel Farooq
  • It is not balance you need but adaptability. -- Erwin McManus
  • The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability. -- Kristin Hunter
  • The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability. -- Charles Darwin
  • As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. -- Doc Childre
  • Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. -- Oliver Sacks
  • Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. -- Bruce Lee
  • Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create. -- John Galsworthy
  • In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom. -- Gautama Buddha
  • I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny. -- Nicolaas Bloembergen
  • . . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare- Diary of A Combat Fiend -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
  • Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. -- Octavia E. Butler
  • It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated. -- Kenneth I. Chenault
  • Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light. -- Laozi
  • A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. -- John Dewey
  • Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street. -- William Shockley
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