Quotes about Adaptability

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

One constant is that, to achieve all the purposes of reading, the desideratum must be the ability to read different things at different—appropriate—speeds, not everything at the greatest possible speed. As Pascal observed three hundred years ago, "When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." Since

Tolerance, and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start. Never has there been a time more favorable to pioneers than the present. True, there is no wild and woolly west to be conquered, as in the days of the Covered Wagon; but there is a vast business, financial, and industrial world to be remoulded and redirected along new and better lines.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

Scientists often say My position is mistaken. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.