Quotes about adaptability

"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis on adaptability
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"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."

Book, William Frederick on adaptability
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"I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt."

Bowman, Scotty on adaptability
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"One learns to itch where one can scratch."

Bramah, Ernest on adaptability
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"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."

Churchill, Winston on adaptability
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"Singularity shows something wrong in the mind."

Clarissa on adaptability
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"Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment."

Dewey, John on adaptability   

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

Gandhi, Mahatma on adaptability
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"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."

Hamilton, Alexander on adaptability
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"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."

Heard, Jane on adaptability
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"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind."

Heine, Heinrich on adaptability
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"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."

Maslow, Abraham H. on adaptability
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"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."

Montgomery, Lucy Maud on adaptability
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"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile."

Proverb, Indian on adaptability
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"They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business."

Unknown, Source on adaptability   

"It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current."

Unknown, Source on adaptability
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