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Adaptability or flexibility means being able to change as circumstances require it. It recognizes that life will bring us unforeseen challenges and if we are to honor our values and goals, we must adjust and learn as we go. Adaptability requires a certain willingness to let go, sometimes even grieving unmet expectations or ideas of how things “should” have been.


Flexibility means open ourselves to influenced or educated rather than getting stuck in our own desires or ways of thinking. It lets us go with the flow of a group rather than becoming frustrated or alienated. It helps us to be understanding when other people have needs and plans that interfere with our own.

Adaptability

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Adaptability - Confidence - Determination - Discernment - Faith - Grace
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill quote

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Adaptability - Commitment - Confidence - Determination - Diligence - Grace
Determination declares whatever is required or demanded will be satisfied to the effect the desired result become a possessed property achieved through the force thereof.

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Integrated Gospel Perceptions http://
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Adaptability - Creativity - Determination - Discernment - Faith - Grace
Let us choose to expand our minds and embrace the grace of life.

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Integrated Gospel Perceptions http://
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Adaptability - Discernment - Grace - Humor - Common Sense - Openness
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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Abraham Lincoln
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Adaptability - Commitment - Decisiveness - Faith - Grace - Humility
“My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'” Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi
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Adaptability - Creativity - Industry - Pragmatism - Wisdom - Common Sense
Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.

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Adaptability - Courage - Discernment - Love - Justice - Virtue
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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Adaptability - Discernment - Forbearance - Friendliness - Humility - Strength
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. Martin Luther King Jr., 'Strength to Love,' 1963

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The Strength Of Love
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Contribution #3742


Adaptability
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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Adaptability - Contentment - Insight - Joyfulness - Mindfulness - Focus
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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"Beautiful Boy"
Contribution #3721


Adaptability - Tolerance - Forgiveness - Openness
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

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Adaptability - Unity
In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

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Thomas Merton Reader
Page "Day of a Stranger," p. 431
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Contribution #3463


Adaptability - Aspiration - Determination - Diligence - Initiative
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

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Booker T. Washington
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/success_is_to_be_measured_not_so_much_by_the/8666.html
Viewed on July 16, 2009
Contribution #3412


Adaptability
Successful persuasion may require any combination of ordinary human techniques: pleading, arguing, requesting, reasoning, illustrating, cajoling, praising, challenging, respecting, appeasing, sharing facts, bargaining, dining together, and so on. Alongside, I must remain flexible to revise my belief in my values, given new findings. I must also accept that, at times, open confrontation is unavoidable. That’s all there is—my belief in values that I think will lead to a better world, and trying to get others to see it my way on issues I care enough about. A sense of humor always helps.

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3 Quarks Daily
Namit Arora
"Being Liberal in a Plural World; February 2, 2009"
http://www.3quarksdaily.com
Viewed on June 11, 2009
Contribution #3291


Adaptability - Determination
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.

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John Neal
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Adaptability - Fairness - Playfulness - Citizenship - Common Sense - Universal Ethics
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

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Adaptability - Humor - Simplicity - Creating Beauty
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

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Acceptance - Adaptability
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

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Adaptability
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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Adaptability
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

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Adaptability - Growth
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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Adaptability - Cheerfulness
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

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What's God Got to Do With It?
by Tim Page
Page 51 ("The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child" 1877)
Published by Steerforth Press , Hanover, NH , 2005
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-God-Got-Ingersoll-Separation/dp/1586420968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224970457&sr=8-1
Contribution #2257


Adaptability - Humor
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

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Adaptability
A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 176
Published by Barnes & Noble Books , New York , 2003
http://
Contribution #1604


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.

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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

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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications , Temple City, CA , 2003
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Contribution #1452


Adaptability - Objectivity - Curiosity
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

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Adaptability - Growth
If you want to grow, you must be willing to stretch.

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Adaptability
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

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Mahatma Gandhi
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/adaptability_is_not_imitation-it_means_power_of/11444.html
Viewed on April 16, 2008
Contribution #853


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
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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Nolan Ryan
Contribution #582


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.

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Minuchin Salvador
Viewed on April 9, 2008
Contribution #315


Adaptability
... 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.

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MacDougall Alice Foote
Viewed on April 9, 2008
Contribution #314