Adaptability Quotes
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts. (Quote by - Richard Myers)
I think we match up really well with them, especially if we can get our fans into it and use them also. But we definitely match up well with them in a sense that they adapt and we adapt, so it'll be exciting. (Quote by - Jana Harrigan)
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. (Quote by - K. Okakaura)
In addition to mitigating climate warming, we should also be focusing on how to adapt. In the last few years people have realized that climate change will happen. Adapting is not a choice - it's something we need to do. (Quote by - Richard Klein)
Emily's tough. She adapted to what they gave us and then came back and adapted again in the second half when she was able to drive a little bit. (Quote by - Bill Ipsen)
We adapted to Jon rather than have Jon adapt to us. (Quote by - Jennifer Owensby)
I do not claim to have the answers. All I claim to have is an open mind that is willing to adapt to new information as it becomes available. (Quote by - Leif Ericsson Leo Veness)
I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel. (Quote by - Emma Thompson)
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. (Quote by - Bruce Lee)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?. (Quote by - Joichi Ito)
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. (Quote by - Clarissa)
If intelligence is the ability to adapt to change, then wisdom is to know how and why to adapt for more than personal or economic gain. (Quote by - Ivan Urlaub)
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. (Quote by - William Frederick Book)
I think I'm going to have to adapt to the team much more than they're going to have to adapt to me. I'm a rookie. I might be very old for a rookie, but I am one. So I'm going to adjust to the team. (Quote by - Sarunas Jasikevicius)
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The film came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I had read three different short stories of hers. And so what I wanted to do was to find a way to link all of her stories together. It ended up definitely being an adaptation, but also our own sort of overall story. We were just trying to imagine the life of that character. (Quote by - Lisanne Skyler)
We know that you can only get avian flu from getting in contact with a chicken or a bird species with it. That's bad enough. We don't transfer it from one human to another, which is really bad! But from the infective agent's point of view, the virus' point of view, its going to say 'to be more adaptive, maybe I'll switch hosts, and I'll adapt to a system where humans are transferring to each other.' We wouldn't even have a concept of that or a worry of that without Darwin's theory of evolution. (Quote by - Michael Novacek)
He's adapted quicker than I thought he would. I'd rate him right now around the 15- to 20-fight range in terms of adaptability ? settling down and learning how to pace himself and break a man down. (Quote by - Virgil Hunter)
Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. (Quote by - German Proverb)
They haven't adapted very quickly, but they are adapting. You can tell there's a little bit of depression and acting out -- but we expected that. (Quote by - Jan Hensley)
Once the body gets accustomed, it's going to adapt and overcome. Every cell adapts and adjusts and overcomes. I don't believe in rules. I believe in breaking them. That's how you learn. (Quote by - Bob Miller)
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. (Quote by - John Dewey)
When we allow ourselves to adapt to different situations, life is easier. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
I think every coach has to adapt to what they have, because they're what you get. You can't just go out to the player tree and pick all the great ones. That doesn't happen. You get a Barry Sanders every now and then. You get a Billy Sims every once in a while. And when you have it, you adapt to their strengths. Whoever comes in here and whoever has this job needs to adapt and will do that. (Quote by - Matt Millen)
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. (Quote by - Scotty Bowman)
Everybody knows the Rays are a very good offensive team so the meetings prior to that series are going to be pretty advanced, the advanced scouting is going to pick up. We're not going to ambush anybody like the second half of last season. We may have to adapt. We have to be aware of adapting to what they're doing to us. (Quote by - Joe Maddon)
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. (Quote by - Johan Huizinga)
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet. (Quote by - St. Thomas Aquinas)
You operate with low noise and light, and you want them to come to you. They learn to adapt and overcome and we learn to adapt and overcome the same way. (Quote by - Dan Garibay)
Desert adapted plants, once they're established, they need very little supplemental water. Some of the other plants that we use in the desert, even if they're desert adapted, may not be native to this region, and so they may need additional water supplies. (Quote by - Mitch Basefsky)
I adapt to almost anything. The primary condition is that one of my elementary rights be respected – my dignity. (Quote by - Mariana Fulger)
To adapt, is to move ahead. (Quote by - Byron Pulsifer)
Life provides me both the right and the responsibility of continuously adapting my way of thinking. (Quote by - Mariana Fulger)
I think that people who have tried to adapt games to cinema have tried to adapt a game to something that's cinematic. With 'Tomb Raider' they tried to make an Indiana Jones film, with 'Doom' they tried to make an 'Aliens' movie, and with the 'Resident Evil' movies they tried to make zombie films. (Quote by - Christophe Gans)
They call is adaptation, I call it learning. They call it circumstances, I call it practice. (Quote by - Tarun Upadhyaya)
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. (Quote by - Indian Proverb)
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 them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt. (Quote by - Robert Reischauer)
You tend to do all the exercises you enjoy, not the ones you need to do. Your body adapts to specific movement. If you always do what you enjoy, your body adapts and plateaus after about 3 to 4 weeks. But changing up your routine keeps your mind occupied, keeps you guessing, keeps your body guessing and you'll see more results. (Quote by - Michael Larson)
This approach allows us to take a broad prospective to see what kinds of biological systems are undergoing adaptation. There have been a lot of recent changes--the advent of agriculture, shifts in diet, new habitats, climatic conditions--over the past 10,000 years, and we're using these data to look for those signals of very recent adaptation. (Quote by - Jonathan Pritchard)
With our Customer Adaptive Solution the end game changes big time to become truly customer adaptive, .. We will increase the breadth and depth of our product line. There is more coming your way. We will deliver on our promise [to enable you] to leverage one customer [for ROI]. (Quote by - George Shaheen)
It's just such a switch going from rescuer to victim, in a sense. It's just about adapting and surviving. You'd be surprised what you're capable of doing when you have no other choice. (Quote by - Melinda Shiraki)
After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do. (Quote by - Ann Jillian)
Growth only occurs when you successfully adapt to change. (Quote by - summer jeirles)
The problem with this rushed approach to fitness is that the body doesn't respond to sudden exercise and unhealthy dieting in a favorable manner. In fact, people who strive to get fit at the last minute risk injuring themselves from doing too much exercise too soon. The body needs time to adapt to a new exercise program through gradual increases in duration and intensity. (Quote by - Sabrena Newton)
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity. (Quote by - Christina of Sweden)
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
We have greatly expanded the adapter library. Our adapters speak directly to those applications. (Quote by - Michael Woods)
The anwser is no untill you ask the question. (Quote by - Mark Tidwell)
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
I think NBA players can adapt and certainly Coach K can adapt to NBA players. (Quote by - Maurice Cheeks)
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. (Quote by - Abraham H. Maslow)
Mankind adapts rapidly to innovation, often in spite of itself. We are amazingly adaptable, which is why we survived - our progeny will not only adapt, they will excel. (Quote by - Mark Reed)
Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Quote by - Krishnamurti)
I've adapted my footwork and my punches are a lot harder now. My first fight was like my amateur fights. I went in there with fast feet and fast hands but now I've slowed it down so I'm adapting to it and getting more power into my shots. (Quote by - Amir Khan)
As terrorists adapt to the measures we have taken, we too, are adapting, and have put increased focus on the threats posed by improvised explosive devices, a frequent weapon of choice for terrorists. (Quote by - Kip Hawley)
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
I won't say anything about what happened to him (Stafford). Obviously he wasn't available for the rest of the game. We've got to adapt and overcome injuries this time of the year. They're part of the game. Whether or not he's available for Saturday night, we just adapt to that and overcome it. (Quote by - Dave Hakstol)
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Perhaps the biggest challenge that scientists and governments have ahead of them is to determine how adaptation costs will change over time. (Quote by - Leo Brincat)
I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection of many years for Ernest Gaines, there was no question but that I would be a very faithful adapter..which I did do. (Quote by - Romulus Linney)
We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style each team plays. That?s going to help us come tournament time because the game in the Pac-10 is different from the Big East and we know how to adapt to the different styles. I?m glad I had that opportunity. (Quote by - Allan Ray)
Surviving in the business arena is exceedingly difficult. Only the strongest plus the most adaptable will pull through and emerge as the winner. (Quote by - Zeng Han Jun)
I adapt to my situations. Here, I've got to score. I love scoring, but it doesn't bother me when I don't have to. I love throwing to my big man. I'll do whatever I need to do. I've been around the block, it will be right to me. I've adapted to a lot worse situations. (Quote by - Jamual Warren)
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures. (Quote by - Anthony Principi)
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent. (Quote by - Nolan Ryan)
Anybody who competes in the political arena is always adapting to the way the game is played. If the rules change, people adapt. At the end of the day, this will probably have zero impact - if it passes. (Quote by - Ray McNally)
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. (Quote by - Jane Heard)
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. (Quote by - W R Inge)
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold. (Quote by - Milan Kundera)
In order to continue strengthening our connection to young people in today's digital age, it became clear that we needed to adapt our organizational structure in the same way we have always adapted our programming to meet our audiences' ever-changing tastes. (Quote by - Christina Norman)
There are infinite small solutions. Crises or changes or problems can trigger many of these things which are basically adaptive. We are adapting. (Quote by - Roberto Sanchez)
One learns to itch where one can scratch. (Quote by - Ernest Bramah)
If you look at most of life today, they've all been adapted to a world getting gradually cooler. But our future is destined to be significantly warmer. What are animals going to look like when everything must adapt to a warmer world? Size correlates with many aspects of the biology of an animal so changes in size are likely to translate into substantial ecological changes. A better prediction of the biological effects of future global change requires that, among other things, we understand how climate change shapes body size evolution. (Quote by - Kaustuv Roy)
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
He can be a pitcher within a pitcher over the course of a game. He can adapt to the way batters adapt to him. (Quote by - Guy Hansen)
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. (Quote by - Lucy Maud Montgomery)
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
