Quotes About Adaptation

Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you. Your creative, visual right brain is one of your most important assets, both in creating your personal mission statement and in integrating it into your life.

You cannot change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to always reach your destination." So it is that when disasters occur in our lives and we go within to discover our inner strength or to seek discernment, we have choices to continue in the same direction the storm of life has paved for us, or adjust our sail and get back on track to what we believe and know to be our path in life.

Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce—to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.

give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.

The leader learns to learn from the challenges, failures, and problems of life to improve life.

we must constantly re-educate and reinvent ourselves.

More often than not, a person's center is some combination of these and/or other centers. Most people are very much a function of a variety of influences that play upon their lives. Depending on external or internal conditions, one particular center may be activated until the underlying needs are satisfied. Then another center becomes the compelling force.

Do not fear mistakes—fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.

protected." We began to realize that if we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

If we don't continually invest in improving our own PC, we severely limit our options. We're locked into our present situation

Perfection cannot endure in an imperfect world.

There's no such thing as failure. Sort of progress is better than nothing. Under the circumstances, it's probably impressive. We can only do what we can.

If ordinary stone didn't have enough wisdom to change, there wouldn't be anything here for you to stand on.

When the dawn came to wake him, he met it as if it were an affront to his sanity. He found that his feet were already growing tougher, and his cut hand had healed almost completely.

A decimated population doesn't necessarily equate to extinction.

If you were to pause for a moment and look at your life from a slightly different perspective, you would see you've always been changing.

How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?

I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was.

Remember, the second mouse to the trap is the one who always gets the cheese.

Time has an annoying way of removing tarnish

Old friendships could atrophy. People changed. What was once appreciated between two people became uncomfortable.

Women seemed to marry a man expecting him to change, but he doesn't. Men marry a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

What was once so close and important eventually became so strange and different.

A problem that occurred too quickly for me to solve, so I brought it along.