Adaptively Quotes & Sayings

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics. — C.S. Lewis

People like us are not good with words.
What we mean gets muddled and wrong
somewhere between our minds
and our mouths.

We make art to say how we feel.

Here: These are the chords
to Make You Feel My Love. — Clementine Von Radics

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family. — Jeff Foxworthy

Hell and furies!" Eleanor had begun to pace, her skirts swirling about her ankles. "What was he thinking?"
"When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wine cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used. — Sharon Kay Penman

I would just like to have children. Lots of children. — Frederik, Crown Prince Of Denmark

What is birthday, but a celebration of death. — Aphole

An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people. — Shelley Berkley

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human. — P. J. O'Rourke

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangove — Noel Gallagher

If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time! - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls) — Darren Shan

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. — Emile M. Cioran

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template. — Ronald A. Heifetz

Bob arum is Manny Pacquiao's boss, Floyd Mayweather is his own boss. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

But let there be no doubt: he'd prefer to be handling those challenges adaptively because doing well is preferable. And because - and this is, without question, the most important theme of this entire book - kids do well if they can. — Ross W. Greene

An explosive outburst - like other forms of maladaptive behavior - occurs when the cognitive demands being placed upon a person outstrip that person's capacity to respond adaptively. — Ross W. Greene

We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies. — Neal Stephenson

I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee. — Brandon Sanderson

Authentic leadership is leading adaptively from your core, choosing who you're most inspired to be to serve the greatest good in this moment. — Henna Inam

We all want our own way; some of us have the skills to get our own way adaptively, and some of us don't. — Ross W. Greene

Pornography, in my opinion, has been much misunderstood, for it doesn't develop sex fiends and send them roaming alleyways - it is an anodyne for the sexually oppressed and unrequited, for what is the aim of pornography if not to stimulate masturbation? And surely masturbation is the pleasanter alternative for men "on the muscle," as they say in horse-breeding circles. — Truman Capote

Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love... — Soar