Adaptation Quotes

“It is necessary to understand that the nation has changed. The army has to change with it.”

“I realized I could do everything I used to do, I just had to do it differently.”

“To have longevity in this business, you have to be a chameleon.”

“The Negro has been uprooted from his ancestral soil and has been transplanted to a new world where he has been forced to learn a new language and new ways of life.”

“Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.”

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.”

“Change is inevitable, especially in a group that's been around for over 50 years.”

“I had to be a chameleon. I had to change my color to fit in wherever I went.”

“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

“Adaptation is a masterpiece of piecemeal engineering.”

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”

“When the world changes, you must change.”

“We have to be prepared to change.”

“A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.”

“The point is, you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.”

“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”

“The technology has advanced so much; it's a new age. You have to be in it to win it.”

“We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves in order to exist in this new environment.”

“For a long time I was a chameleon. I was a social chameleon. I was a character chameleon. I was a spiritual chameleon.”