Adapting Quotes

“Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate, and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

“It's still ok to dream with a broken heart.”
― Nikki Rowe

“I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.”
― David Lynch

“I still feel haunted,' she said. 'I thought it would go away. I thought if I faced it, it would all go away.'

'It doesn't go away. Ever. But you get better at it.'

'At what?'

'At being haunted,' Avasarala said.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“If you’re ambitious, you can bring a cultural change through your product instead of adapting, in case it leads to a better society and healthier mother earth.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“You have to always be vigilant and make sure you’re ready to get on the bandwagon as a need for any new change arises.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Planning is helpful. If you don’t know what you want, you’ll seldom get it. But, no matter how well you plan, you will fare better if you expect the unexpected. The unexpected, by nature, comes unseen, unthought, unenvisioned. All you can do is plan to go unplanned, prepare to be unprepared, make going with the flow part of your agenda, for the most successful among us envision, plan, and prepare, but cast all aside as needed, while those who are unable to go with the flow often suffer, if they survive.”
― David W. Jones, Moses and Mickey Mouse: How to Find Holy Ground in the Magic Kingdom and Other Unusual Places

“Plan specifically so you can implement flexibly.”
― Dallin H. Oaks

“I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!”
― Bill Maher

“But l’m good at being uncomfortable
So I can’t stop changing all the time.”
― Fiona Apple

“Just as the sun shines on every soul, let your light of compassion shine on everyone irrespective of who they are and what they believe.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“Rob chuckles, “I’m not some sparkly-skinned, jealous, child whose sensibilities are still stuck at the turn of the twentieth century. Eve, I can adapt. If we survived the sixties I promise you we can survive learning to share the most important person in either of our long lives.”
― Angela Louise McGurk

“I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.”
― Steven Magee

“Nothing that remains static is truly ever alive. Nature does not abide idleness. All energy sources of the natural world and the cosmos are in a constant motion, they are in a perpetual state of fluctuation. All forms of living must make allowances for the seasons of change. The Earth itself is twirling through space, spinning on its axis analogous to a child’s top. The unpredictable forces of instability brought about by a combination of motion, change, and flux propels the miraculous dynamism of existence.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exactly what it wants. We can tell that we are encountering a real work of art by the degree to which it resists subjectivity.”
― Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz

“Innovation is the process of transforming an idea or concept into a functional and marketable value proposition reflecting creative opportunity.”
― Robert E. Davis

“The best schedule is one that is adapting to change.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The storm drowns the ship,
but it does not drown the fish.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“No matter what happens in your life, keep an open heart and mind with a gentle smile. It's the true beauty of the heart.”
― Imania Margria

“Take in every detail of your environment and adapt.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“Planning is a continuous and real-time activity that must anticipate and adapt to counter emerging pitfalls in the pursuit of achieving intended objectives.”
― Victor Manan Nyambala

“Aren't they worried about the hydra?"

"They don't believe." Arden's tone was sad[...]"Humans are strange that way. Once they have set their minds on a thing, sometimes all the evidence in the world will not sway their opinion”
― Amy Rae Durreson, Recovery

“Are you aware that since the 1980’s your body has been adapting to abnormal wireless radiation from cell phone towers?”
― Steven Magee

“Just like a new paragraph, one's zeal and enthusiasm could always be reworked to adapt to the new circumstances. New dreams often make one forget the past tears and advance in the life in a direction where they bloomed.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Skylines

“Life happens. Death happens. It all depends on how we respond to it.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“We're trying to do something. It would be easy--for now--to take Charles out of school. We thought about that immediately, even before he ...But Charles Wallace is going to have to live in a world made up of people who don't think at all in any of the ways that he does. and the sooner he starts learning to get along with them, the better. Neither you nor Charles has the ability to adapt that the twins do.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Part of getting old gracefully is recognizing your emerging limitations.”
― Steven Magee

“The world is in a constant state of flux, and the dreamer who remains steadfastly attached to a single course of action will soon find themselves left behind. In the face of adversity, you must be willing to change tactics, adapting your strategies to the shifting landscape of power. This adaptability is the hallmark of a true Machiavellian, as it enables you to weather the storms of adversity and emerge even stronger than before.”
― Kevin L. Michel, Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual