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“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
― Bruce Lee

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
― Stephen Hawking

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
― John Dryden

“Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.”
― Mike Norton, Fighting For Redemption

“People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.”
― Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

“A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― George S. Patton

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
― Winston Churchill

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
― Milton Friedman

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
― Mark Twain

“Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen."

Tzu Chang asked what they were.

Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness.
If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected;
if you are generous, you will gain everything.
If you are honest, people will rely on you.
If you are persistent you will get results.
If you are kind, you can employ people.”
― Confucius

“There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.”
― Colin Powell