Quotes about Adaptability

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

There was no use grieving over what might have been.

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF.

If you can't fit everything in within the time and budget allotted then don't expand the time and budget. Instead, pull back the scope. There's always time to add stuff later — later is eternal, now is fleeting.

You have to be able to improvise. You have to be able to pick up opportunities that come along.

Release yourself from the 9am-to-5pm mentality. It might take a bit of time and practice to get the hang of working asynchronously with your team, but soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution. And remember, you can usually turn good enough into great later.

Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the people to whom he belonged, he still kept, under his easy pliancy, the skeleton of old faiths and old fashions. He talks every language as well as the rest of us, Susy had once said of him, but at least he talks one language better than the others.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.