Quotes About Adaptation

Like a dead branch falling from a tree, which them decomposes and nourishes the soil, your disappointments can transform into the elements of change and growth.

Habit, routine, and too much consistency numb our minds and pave the road for us to sleepwalk through our lives. Nothing stays the same. Everything passes, and everything changes. However, do not move too much. As an apple tree cannot bear fruit if it is too often transplanted, neither will a knight who is always building a new castle.

If all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

Don't try to pound them into your framework like square pegs into round holes.

How do you avoid that trap? The McKinsey way is to take an occasional step back from the continual grind of fact gathering and analysis and to ask yourself what you have learned over the past week (or two weeks, or whatever). How does the new information fit into your initial hypothesis? If it doesn't, how might it change that hypothesis? Doing these little reality checks now and then could save you from chasing down blind alleys. As a final

Running for the hills is not the way to go. We live in a time where there are actually fewer and fewer places left to run away to. Therefore, it's imperative to find ways to use your energy to dive into—not run from—existing paths of livelihood. A hip-hop mogul or an oil executive are powerful already. There's no reason they couldn't be powerfully selfless and compassionate as well.

People's ways are all so different. It's rather infernal—trying to please everybody

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Beavers will invent a new way of building dams before architects accept a new method or a new style in their art (23 August 1854).

You must use methods familiar to the times in which you live, otherwise you will not be understood, and you will not live. This languages of another age, which you desire to use in speaking to men of your own times, will always be an artificial medium (Monday 16 March 1857)

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post.

But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.

Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

How are you?" "Good–" "Give it time…

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

Mother: "He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I'd still get something out of it. I guess that's true." An

You know, she used to tear down parts of that house and put them back together herself.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

It was his time with the Xanti which had changed him. They thought that everyone's life was like a river; you had to flow with the current and not struggle, which wasted breath and made you more likely to drown.

It was his time with the Xanti which had changed him. They thought that everyone's life was like a river; you had to flow with the current and not struggle, which wasted breath and made you more likely to drown.

Yo estaba viva, pero tendría que reaprender a vivir para hacerme un lugar dentro de un mundo que a menudo no querría conocer los horrores que yo había presenciado.

When it comes to communication, things never change and yet things are always changing.