Top 1200 Ability To Adapt Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and whether you live in Shanghai or you live in Sao Paulo, you have the ability of seeing and knowing the ideas of some of the greatest minds of our generation.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.

I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

I think I've lost that ability to slow things down - that ability drivers have to calculate what's coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

My ability to model does not have an effect on my ability to be an actress. But casting directors and agents in the U.K. wouldn't give me the time of day.

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Do you know the most important trait a man can have? It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance. In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled down, means the ability to see the best in man.

The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs' ability to attack. And it's important - all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

I check all the boxes. You have a look, in-ring ability, the ability to speak and communicate. I have all that, plus experience.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting.

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.

They have more ability in the middle of the field in terms of ability

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.

The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.

For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.

We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.

I've shown I have the ability to reduce spending, I've shown I have the ability to reduce onerous regulations, and I've shown that I have the ability to fight for and restore our privacy and our personal freedoms.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

I've always had that confidence in my performance ability and my ability to speak in character.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

It's more important than ever to define yourself in terms of what you stand for rather than what you make, because what you make is going to become outmoded faster than it has at any time in the past. ...hang on to the idea of who you are as a company, and focus not on what you do, but on what you could do. By being really clear about what you stand for and why you exist, you can see what you could do with a much more open mind. You enhance your ability to adapt to change.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that's important when it comes to playing quarterback.