Adaptable Quotes · Page 2

I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain…

— Tommy Wiseau

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

— Alvin Toffler

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

— Daniel Wolpert

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher

Flow. Be adaptable. Be sensitive like water, feel the other so you can attune and harmonize with your partner.

— John Friend

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

— Ajahn Sumedho

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

— Evelyn Glennie

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

— Henry Mintzberg

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of…

— Gary Hamel

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild…

— Yvon Chouinard

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can…

— Rod Serling

We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can…

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory,…

— Jim Elliot

Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests…

— David Cameron

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

— Robert McCrum

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains…

— Beryl Markham

When I left the military, I thought I would not have any problems with the transition - I'm very adaptable and very…

— Ant Middleton

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“It is not the strongest animal that survives, nor the fastest, but the one most adaptable to change. —Leon C. Megginson, paraphrasing…

— Ben Falk

“I don’t believe that my particular body structure is easily adaptable to that type of device,”

— John Kennedy Toole

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Very quickly, kids take your plan and say, 'Ha!' so you have to learn to be adaptable, or you will be literally…

— Busy Philipps

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

— Olivier Martinez

I started adapting, and that's how I've been able to stay afloat all these years. It's important to be adaptable.

— Denzel Curry

You have to be adaptable. I don't think you can go into a game with any fixed plan.

— Eoin Morgan

Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

— Gerard Way

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do…

— Robert Shea

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me,…

— Kate Moss

We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.

— Dale Jamieson

“I am the creation of all the rivers I have known and the knowledge they've instilled: I am constant, adaptable, and strong-willed.”

— Bridget Crocker

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path…

— Simon Sinek

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

— Jim Cole

We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competitiveness and prosperity.

— David Blunkett

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two…

— Manolo Blahnik

Unless you're at a club long enough that can develop a philosophy of playing and recruiting players that fit that way of…

— Gareth Southgate

There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into…

— Francis Spufford