Quotes about Adaptability

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

The cardinal rule in prayer remains the dictum of Don Chapman: "Pray as you can; don't pray as you can't.

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own.

Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.

I'm man enough to tell you that I can't put my finger on exactly what my philosophy is right now, but I'm flexible.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.

Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.

What's a bootstrapper to do? You have to go where the other guys can't. Take advantage of what you have so that you can beat the competition with what they don't.

students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.