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I love dogs because they're so adaptable. -- Martha Plimpton
I'm pretty adaptable and can adjust to any environment. -- Jennie Finch
Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors. -- Kyle MacLachlan
I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competitiveness and prosperity. -- David Blunkett
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. -- Evelyn Glennie
They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness. -- Jim Cole
I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am. -- Jessica Raine
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
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only. -- Robert Shea
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride. -- James Lovegrove
Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures. -- Dan Buettner
I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me. -- Julie Delpy
An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth. -- Gary Hamel
Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met. -- David Cameron
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it. -- David Cameron
To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions. -- Gary Hamel
Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt. -- Douglas Rushkoff
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant. -- Francis Spufford
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized. -- Gary Hamel
I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable. -- Moby
If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next. -- Gabe Newell
There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap. -- Jennifer Ehle
I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home. -- Matthew McConaughey
The great thing about history is that it is adaptable. -- Peter Ustinov
It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive. -- Charles Darwin
We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation. -- Dale Jamieson
The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance. -- Ming-Dao Deng
The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while. -- Gloria Steinem
I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize. -- Julia Leigh
Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable. -- Gerard Way
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me. -- Heather Donahue
Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable. -- Daniel Kish
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. -- Ronald Fisher
It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. -- Paulo Freire
To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student. -- Jean-Francois de La Harpe
If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man." -- Alexander Kluge
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world. -- Winston Churchill
Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you. -- Brian Regan
When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people. -- Henry Mintzberg
Flow. Be adaptable. Be sensitive like water, feel the other so you can attune and harmonize with your partner. -- John Friend
We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements. -- Daniel Wolpert
It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable. -- Olivier Martinez
The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable. -- Donald A. Norman
English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive. -- Robert McCrum
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. -- Ajahn Sumedho
Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict. -- Bob Ainsworth
The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable. -- Julian Barnes
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. -- Alvin Toffler
I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really. -- Kate Moss
The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies. -- Neil Postman
I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest. -- Tommy Wiseau
Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go. -- Simon Sinek
Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged. -- Jim Elliot
The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences. -- Deepak Chopra
It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the centre of the circle to an indefinite point outside its circumference. -- K.J. Parker
We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place. -- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all. -- Mark Twight
Jamming - which follows rules but not individual notes - gives you a different result each time, depending upon the players and the conditions in which they find themselves. It is adaptable to changing conditions. -- John Kao
LTO ultrium is adaptable and scalable backup tape format and its technology is continuously enhanced by its manufacturers to address the growing needs and requirements of the server environments of midrange to the enterprise class. -- Sean Paul

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