Quotes About Adaptability

Eagles are not intimidated by the heights and forceful winds that other birds may fear. Instead, they take advantage of the gales, flying into the wind, setting their wings so the gusts only lift them higher. Nor do eagles waste time battling with other birds that are pests to them. When attacked, they simply mount up higher and higher until they reach an altitude in which their enemies cannot survive.

Don't allow feelings of any kind to dominate you, but instead remember that feelings are fickle. They are ever-changing. The bad ones are there when you wish they weren't, and the good ones disappear when you need them most.

Power Thought: God has given me the ability to adjust to people and things and remain in peace.

A slow, admiring smile drifted across his face as he said, "What a chameleon you are!" Her eyes snapped with indignation. "Lizard?

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR

He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty soon people begin adapting themselves to him.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation becomes a game. In the next two weeks we spent a few dollars on white paint and dotted swiss, and were settled. The

We are like water, aren't we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too." And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.

Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent. --Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950

Nimitz kept avoiding the hands that attempted to steer him off the wing and into a crash boat. Finally, an eighteen-year-old seaman second class lost patience with the white-haired gentleman, and knowing neither his identity nor his rank, he shouted out, "Commander, if you would only get the hell out of the way, maybe we could get something done around here." Nimitz merely nodded and finally clambered into the waiting boat.

Las personas se podrían ubicar en un continuo de tal manera que podríamos hallar gente más o menos rígida, flexible o líquida, o con el predominio de un tipo de mente y pequeñas pinceladas de las otras.

Para la gente inflexible es muy difícil alcanzar un estado de paz interior. Más aún, es prácticamente imposible estar cerca de una persona rígida, llámese pareja, compañera o compañero de trabajo o de universidad, y no verse afectado negativamente por ella o él.

Mientras la mente rígida está petrificada y cerrada al cambio y la mente líquida es gaseosa, la mente flexible posee un cuerpo modificable. No está fija en un punto ni se desliza por cualquier parte sin rumbo, sino que posee una dirección renovable. A la mente flexible le gusta el movimiento, la curiosidad, la exploración, el humor, la creatividad, la irreverencia y, por sobre todo, ponerse a prueba.

bajeza o humillación. En otras palabras, la mente flexible tiene en cuenta la norma, pero también aquellos factores complementarios y equilibrantes que la apaciguan.

La mente flexible es responsiva y sensible a otros puntos de vista sin verse necesariamente en la obligación de aceptarlos.

Tal como lo demuestran todas las tradiciones espirituales y la psicología cognitiva y positiva contemporánea, la mentalidad flexible hace que las personas se sientan más felices y se aproximen más a la sabiduría.

la suavidad y la flexibilidad están íntimamente relacionadas con la vida, mientras la dureza y la rigidez están asociadas a la muerte.

La mente flexible mantiene opiniones, tiene creencias y principios, pero está dispuesta al cambio y en pleno contacto con la realidad.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

nobody knows the solution to every problem; rather than blindly following the prescriptions of others, Africans need to think and act for themselves, and learn from their mistakes.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them. Montaigne, Of Presumption (1580)

Stoic needs a good sense of humor.