Quotes of Versatility - somelinesforyou

“ The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it… did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ The fact that England has embraced me as one of its own is really cool. ”

- Quentin Tarantino

“ We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air… So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead. ”

- Harry Caray

“ I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. ”

- Bell Hooks

“ At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual. ”

- Alanis Morissette

“ A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. ”

- Alvin Toffler

“ We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it. ”

- Lauryn Hill

“ If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice. ”

- Conor Cruise O’Brien

“ Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. ”

- W. R. Inge

“ Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The most amazing thing about little children … was their fantastic adaptability. ”

- Kristin Hunter

“ Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. ”

- Cormac McCarthy

“ If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. ”

- Chief Joseph

“ Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing. ”

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. ”

- Scotty Bowman

“ One learns to itch where one can scratch. ”

- Ernest Bramah

“ We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. ”

- Alexander Hamilton

“ Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. ”

- Unknown

“ I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. ”

- Edith Wharton

“ In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. ”

- Abraham H. Maslow

“ Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. ”

- Samuel McChord Crothers
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