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.
Alain Delaze
Adapt
verb, to change to fit the environment
Nature is a dictionary
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
- Eugene Delacroix
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Dictionary: the universe in alphabetical order.
- Anatole France
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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together in a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language — not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may need to read the great book which is written in that tongue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adaptation
noun, a change to improve the way things work
With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.
Jean M. Auel
Alligator
noun, a large reptile and a carnivore that lives near the water; subspecies of the crocodile with a rounded snout
Alligators want to be away from you as much as you want to be away from them.
Jack Hanna
Ambuscade
noun, an ambush
The rising birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade; startled beasts indicate that an attack is coming.
Sun Tzu
Applause
noun, praise for someone usually expressed by clapping hands
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Samuel Johnson
Attainment
noun, the action of achieving a goal for which one has worked
Greatness is the attainment that is bought with the currency of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Beautiful
adjective, pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically
The thought that is beautiful is the thought to cherish. The word that is beautiful is worthy to endure. The act that is beautiful is eternally and always true and right.
Bertha Bailey
Begin
verb, to start, to commence
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done— then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Being
noun, 1. a living thing
verb, 2. present participle of the verb to be
1. A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being as much as a plant or a crystal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Camouflage
noun, 1. special clothing for people or colors in an animal that help them blend into their surroundings
verb, 2. an organism’s ability to blend in with the environment
1. Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage generally stand out in a crowd?
Peter Thomas
2. Now if I appear to be carefree it’s only to camouflage my sadness; in order to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.
Smokey Robinson
