Quotes About Adaptation

You may have heard the old saying that "the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result." In marketing, we could say something very similar: the definition of insanity is doing the same things as your competitors and expecting to beat them.

But taking wrong trains, encountering unexpected delays, and suffering occasional mechanical breakdowns are inevitable to any journey really worth taking. One learns to get oneself turned around and headed the right way.

Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

The reason the world's so fucked up is we're undergoing evolution. And the reason our institutions, our traditional religions are all crumbling is because they're no longer relevant

Do not expect the world to facilitate you if you are not willing to adapt yourself. Let's

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve

One of the great rules of life is that we all establish 'policies', although we call them habits or preferences or beliefs or techniques, which are useful to us, but which we continue to use after the reason for them has evaporated. We have a hard time seeing things as they are because we can never get what they were out of our heads.

Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.

The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.

Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.

Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.

Occasionally, we go through times when we feel God is not speaking to us. While that may be so, most of the time He has simply changed His language, and He expects us to adjust with Him.

Instead of shaping culture around us, we are all too often shaped by it.

Being willing to do what you are not qualified to do is sometimes what qualifies you.

I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it.

Climate change has become such a familiar term that we tend to read past it- it's part of our mental furniture, like urban sprawl or gun violence.

But knowing that moose had returned to Vermont in his lifetime pleased him enormously. It was the idea that things repaired themselves, that if you backed off a little and didn't ask too much of the world then it would meet you halfway.

I think the system has met its match. We no longer possess the margin we'd require for another huge leap forward, certainly not fast enough to preserve the planet we used to live on.

It made him feel old, as if he'd outlived the very climate of his life, and it made him feel mad, and it made him feel tired.

They're good at this. Don't be so sure that your version of reality is better because it's newer.

Here's the Stanford University researcher Rosamond Naylor, who conducted some of the most recent calculations: "I think what startled me the most is that when we looked at our historic examples there were ways to address the problem within a given year. People could always turn somewhere else to find food. But in the future there's not going to be any place to turn."61 It doesn't get any more basic than that.