Quotes about Adapting

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments in life: one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. "If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

The reason we in the West do not suffer more persecution is because we have accommodated ourselves too much to the world around us.

We only get one shot at every season of life. Whether or not we learned anything becomes evident in the seasons that follow.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.