Adaptability Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image “Unadaptability is often a virtue.” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adaptability Character Virtue
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept… — Robert Reischauer Copy Share Image
I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do… — James F. Amos Copy Share Image
“Change is inevitable. Wise leaders anticipate it and adapt quickly.” — Cynthia Rivard Copy Share Image
“Marketing is a never-ending story. It’s about perpetual motion where innovation plays the lead role.” — Stacey Kehoe Copy Share Image
“...such it is with all human sensations that people become gradually used to everything and this is truly a beneficial gift from nature, because… — C. J. Wagevier Copy Share Image
“That was certainly a case of snowballing momentum. Who would've thought he'd succeed being that far behind?" "True. This particular assignment was designed to… — Yuto Tsukuda Copy Share Image