Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

My biggest strength in life is that I'm good at learning and I'm really good at admitting when I'm wrong and recalibrating my perspective.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.

In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

Theoretically, an open-plan office is a great format for a changeable work environment, a place where employees have a say over how they work and a place that can adapt to their needs and to the needs of the business.

Agility is fundamental to leading a team through times of change.

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Performing at the highest level in sports requires adaptability.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.

There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a 'can-do' attitude. You could call that 'can-do' attitude optimism, but it is not Pollyannaish optimism. Rather, it is a 'we'll figure it out' type of mentality.

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.

The most important skill you need is the ability to learn how to change and grow.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

Mobile devices have given us greater freedom and flexibility than ever before, while social platforms help us collaborate more effectively.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

My strength is my flexibility. As a batsman, I have to adapt to different roles and numbers and frankly, I have been around for a long time now to understand different situations.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.