A person must learn to be adaptable and serve others in order to rule. Willing followers are not acquired by force or cunning but through consistency in doing what is human and proper.
The weather-cock on the church spire though made of iron would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it… did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress therefore depends on unreasonable people.
For wayfarers of all times the right strategy for skillfully spreading the Way essentially lies in adapting to communicate. Those who do not know how to adapt stick to the letter and cling to doctrines get stuck on forms and mired in sentiments-none of them succeed in strategic adaptation.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. Its what you do with what you have left.
A person must learn to be adaptable and serve others in order to rule. Willing followers are not acquired by force or cunning but through consistency in doing what is human and proper.
When in Rome do as you done in Milledgeville.’08-02-2010
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
The weather-cock on the church spire though made of iron would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it… did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. Its what you do with what you have left
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress therefore depends on unreasonable people.
The more adapted you are the less adaptable you tend to be.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
For wayfarers of all times the right strategy for skillfully spreading the Way essentially lies in adapting to communicate. Those who do not know how to adapt stick to the letter and cling to doctrines get stuck on forms and mired in sentiments-none of them succeed in strategic adaptation.