#adaptability

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. ↗

— Fred Perry

#ability #adaptability #experience #necessary #sportsmanship

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. ↗

— Yann Martel

#madness #survival #life

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#dignity #humanity #love-and-respect-for-all #vulnerability #attitude

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#evolution #survival #survival-of-the-fittest #change

If something is not to your liking, change your liking. ↗

— Patricia Ryan Madson

#change

If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#flexibility #stubbornness #experience

Certainly sand was not suitable for life. Yet, was a stationary condition absolutely indispensable for existence? Didn't unpleasant competition arise precisely because one tried to cling to a fixed position? If one were to give up a fixed position and abandon oneself to the movement of the sands, competition would soon stop. Actually, in the deserts flowers bloomed and insects and other animals lived their lives. These creatures were able to escape competition through their great ability to adjust--for example, the man's beetle family. While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow. ↗

— Kōbō Abe

#competition #fixity #family

Adaptability is key. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#key

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#fixed #incapable #outside #patterns #set

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#change #humility #leadership #change