Quotes about Adaptability

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.

Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man's body, his mind, or his spirit.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. 'We're like coyotes,' he said. 'Get to a good place, turn around three times in the grass, and you're home. Once you know how, you can always do that, no matter what. You won't forget.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They are value driven; and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn't a function of whether the weather is conducive to it or not.

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them.

Many of us find that increasing our speed only makes things worse.

My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach.