(216 quotes found)
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher”
Chinese Proverbs
“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.”
Charles de Gaulle
“A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.”
Coco Chanel
“We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances”
W. R. Inge
“The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
Bruce Lee
“The laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur”
Legal Maxim
“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways”
Clarence Day
“Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street”
William Shockley
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