Quotes About Adaptation

You're going to learn if something's bad. It's not like you're going to say, 'Well, that lion was really unpleasant. I think maybe I'll come back here and see if I like it the next time.

life itself was an improvisation in which I was going to have to deal with what came to me and not think about what should have come.

If another player creates a bump in the sculpture, you don't ignore it; you acknowledge the bump and build on it. Communication doesn't take place because you tell somebody something. It takes place when you observe them closely and track their ability to follow you. Like making a sculpture out of space, communication is a group experience.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the res tof it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do. And if we don't grow, we decay. It's that simple. Nothing in our universe is static.

The only thing for old age is a brave face, a good tailor and comfortable shoes.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

Digital transformation therefore requires redesign and re-engineering on every level – people, process, technology and governance.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Eric Raymond says, "Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to reuse.

Computer literacy, however, is really a euphemism for forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to understand the inner workings of application logic, rather than having software-enabled products stretch to meet people's usual ways of thinking.

Sometimes the worst thing about change is the shock of the change itself and not actually the new circumstances.

because of Tommy Darling, genetically and through his legacy, I embrace change, I never take anything for granted, and I never forget how lucky I have been, and am.

Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.

This work is, as I said, improvisation, so we use whoever's around, if we can trust them.

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

AFTER YEARS OF BEING ASKED to do more with less, managers are increasingly aware that they cannot produce the results that are expected of them with the organizations they currently have and the methods they currently use.

Theer's no use saying pigs conner fly, when you see them catching swallows.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Heaven help me, Hideki thought. I've gotten used to it.

innovation is all about being distracted —distracted from the way we normally think about things.