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"I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be."
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"Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet."

"How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Perkins.'Right."

"The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. 'Adjust everywhere'."

"Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable."

"Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left."

"Be flexible and adapt easily to new things."

"The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion."

"Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day."

"Every person has to prepare himself to the point where no place would be burdensome for him. The place may get bored with him, but he will not get bored; he has to get prepared to that extent. Because otherwise these are infinite places; there is no end to the places. Infinite places are there."

"Adapt to any situation."
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"The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead."

"I wanted to join Footlights, he says. "I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken."

"There was a sort of gallery structure in the roof space which held a bed and also a bathroom which you could actually swing a cat in. But only if it was a reasonably patient cat and didn't mind a few nasty cracks about the head."

"You know because you've been it, and I know because I'm dead and it gives one such a wonderfully uncluttered perspective."

"OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!"

"Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through."

"In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship-he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's desk is still preserved the way he left it, with the addition of a small sign that says LIG LURY, JR., EDITOR, MISSING, PRESUMED FED."

"The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up."
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