Quotes About Adaptability

What we need is a plan B … independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.

Policies are nothing more than guidelines to be broken for the benefit of our guests. We're here to give the guests what they want, period.

No hables tosco, torpe ni duro a quien amas. Habla suave. Habla dulce. Habla de tal manera que vengan los cambios, y no de tal forma que su corazón se cierre. Reclama cambios cuando así corresponda, pero no olvides que tú eres el primero al que no le deba costar cambiar. No pongas condiciones tales como «si no cambia…», y tú no estés dispuesto a cambiar en eso que exiges en ella cambiar. Eso es simplemente falta de autoridad.

Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. Philippians 4:11–12, NLT

I am fairly agile. I can bend and not break. Or I can break and take it with a smile.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

George Bernard Shaw said that most people who fail complain that they are the victims of circumstances. Those who get on in this world, he said, are those who go out and look for the right circumstances. And if they can't find them they make their own.

I am willing to taste any drink once.

It is a good thing to have two ways of looking at a subject, and to admit that there are two ways of looking at it.

A highly structured, prescriptive model of sheltering and scaffolding is not necessary for effectively educating English learners. In fact, mandating any approach that allows for little deviation is likely to be counterproductive. Just as explicit instruction encourages passive learning, tightly scripted lessons encourage passive teaching.

Half is better than nothing and I had no money to invest in this bigger investment to start with I am okay with that

Not everything appears as it seems and vice versa in life like I have no teeth but is not because I'm a country bumpkin I actually lost them in Iraq but I chew steaks better without them how you like them apples

Pass the Ball Enlightened leaders deliberately hand over responsibility in order to create engaged team-players able to adapt their approach to suit the conditions. 'Command & Control' in a VUCA world is unwieldy and increasingly uncompetitive.

There is an important difference between the politician who is simply an able tactician, and the politician who is a creative political

Infinite players, on the other hand, continue their play in the expectation of being surprised. If surprise is no longer possible, all play ceases.

Rashers, me heart, if it was raining soup, you'd have nothing but a fork.

In the real world, few plans proceeded as planned. For a mission to succeed, a plan had to be liquid, capable of changing at a moment's notice.

At some point we need to be understood as more of a porous social platform than an impervious temple to culture.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Successful program management is about choosing a right pathway and owning the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen path, because in the real world the optimal or perfect path doesn't exist.

If you can't plan it in advance, you have to see how it goes as you do it

there's one thing I'm good at, it's lying on my feet. It's sort of a gift I have.