A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever-changing season without losing her genuine elements.

— Roseville Nidea

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.

— Pearl Zhu

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

— Max McKeown

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

— Max McKeown

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

— Yann Martel

Alterations in the environment place us under personal stress. Changes in our routines and the physical, social, cultural, and economic environment forces us to make decisive decisions, we cannot continue our robotic ways. We must adapt to fresh encounters with the peripheral world. Variation in our external domain brings about shocking revolutions of our internal realm of thoughts and emotions.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

An adaptive mind has better learning capability.

— Pearl Zhu

Change is essential for survival. All life forms must adapt to their fluctuating circumstances. All form of life result from the process of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance. The universe is in a constant state of chaos. We each have chaos implanted into our bones. Nature wires all of us for change.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Change is inevitable, progress is not.

— Max McKeown