Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

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

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Our only security is our ability to change.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

I'm just coming to terms with the fact that I will always do lots of different things and I can't really stay in one place too long.

I feel it's important for anyone to adapt; you never know what kind of situation you will walk into.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.