Adaptability

Adaptability means being able to change when circumstances require it. It recognizes that life will constantly bring us unforeseen challenges and that if we are to honor our values and goals, we must adjust and learn as we go. It means being flexible when other people have needs and plans that interfere with our own. Adaptability requires a certain willingness to let go, to be a part of the flow. It means not getting stuck in our ideas of how things “should” have been. Related virtues: resilience, growth.
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
  • Author: Zhuang Zi - Warring States Period - China
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 176
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
Published in New York
Published in 2003
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Adaptability
If the future road looks ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction.
  • Author: Angelou, Maya
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... a large portion of success is derived from flexibility. It is all very well to have principles, rules of behavior concerning right and wrong. But it is quite as essential to know when to forget as when to use them.
  • Author: MacDougall Alice Foote
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Acceptance - Adaptability - Love - Responsibility - Tolerance
I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life—the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.
  • Author: Minuchin Salvador
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Adaptability - Growth
If you want to grow, you must be willing to stretch.
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Adaptability - Objectivity - Curiosity
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.
  • Author: Ford, Henry
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Adaptability
There are three ways to correct our faults:

We can change
                   through behavior
We can change  
                   through understanding
We can change  
                   from the heart
  • Author: Buddha
  • Contributor: MarleyA
  • Buddhism
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
Published in Temple City, CA
Published in 2003
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Adaptability
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

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Adaptability
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
  • Author: Gandhi, Mahatma
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