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Adaptation Quotes
"But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it."
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"At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with."
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"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."
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"Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances are without inner-intent and you are with inner-intent. To make the circumstances favorable is our job. Unfavorable circumstances are indeed favorable. One feels exhausted going up the stairs, and yet why does he climb them? There is the inner-intent that he will be able to go up; he will be able to take advantage of what is up there; that is why!"
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"At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root."
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"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."
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"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."
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"To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead."
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"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
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"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process."
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"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."
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"When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me."
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"When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville."
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"If you are not able to 'adjust everywhere', then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away."
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"We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs."
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"I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out."
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"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."
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"Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions."
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"While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world."
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"A positive attitude will empower you to be more resilient to proactively adapt to change."
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"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."
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"There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation."
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"We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough."
14
"We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has 'adjusted everywhere'."
14
"Take the tone of the company you are in."
14
"Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything."
14
"When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation."
14
"We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment."
14
"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching."
14
"It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways."
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"When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment."
13
"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."
13
"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
13
"Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story."
13
"Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary."
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"Admittedly, there will be times when you must interact on a superficial level and adjust your behavior to fit in, go along and get along."
12
"Adapt yourself to the needs of the people."
11
"You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced."
11
"For most people the environment controls them rather than being in full control of experiences."
11
"There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed."
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"As a professional speaker, I speak rather quickly with enthusiastic energy and emotion. This doesn't always sit well with people who like to speak at a slower pace and need more time to process. What I have learned through years in this profession is that to be more effective I must adapt my pace to the comfort level of my audience. When I am speaking to academics, engineers, and doctors, I speak with a slower pace than the one which I use with sales people, customer services teams, or teenagers."
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"Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!"
10
"You don't need to fight situation. You must only adjust, adapt and advance."
10
"In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him."
10
"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
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"If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation."
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"If you don't stay relevant you will be relegated."
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