Quotes About Adaptation

Leon at once envied the calm of the tomb, and one evening he had even made his will, asking to be buried in that beautiful rug with velvet stripes he had received from her. For this was how they would have wished to be, each setting up an ideal to which they were now adapting their past life. Besides, speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

For this was how they would have wished to be, each setting up an ideal to which they were now adapting their past life. Besides, speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

sentimentele sl?besc cînd le schimbi locul .../ Frédéric s'était attendu à des spasmes de joie ; mais les passions s'étiolent quand on les dépayse , et, ne retrouvant plus Mme Arnoux dans le milieu où il l'avait connue, elle lui semblait avoir perdu quelque chose, porter confusément comme une dégradation, enfin n'être pas la même. Le calme de son coeur le stupéfiait. (©BeQ)

Er waren bepaalde streken op aarde, meende zij, waar het geluk tot bloei komt, als een plant die speciaal aan díé bodem is gehecht en nergens anders goed gedijt.

Les Grecs alignèrent sur des rangs parallèles leurs tentes de peaux; les Ibériens disposèrent en cercle leurs pavillons de toile; les Gaulois se firent des baraques de planches; les Libyens des cabanes de pierres sèches, et les Nègres creusèrent dans le sable avec leurs ongles des fosses pour dormir. Beaucoup, ne sachant où se mettre, erraient au milieu des bagages [...]

ART – Leads to the poorhouse. What's the use of it, since we're replacing it with machines that do better and work faster?

Tiens, tu es stupide comme toutes les femmes. Vous n'agissez jamais que par passion. Vous ne savez pas vous plier aux circonstances… vous êtes stupides ! 

History has always existed, but not always in a historical form.

If you think that leadership is deciding what you want and telling people to do it, I feel sorry for you. Reality is going kick your ass so far that not even Google will find you. The goal of this chapter is to help you become such a great leader that you'll appear on the first page of a Google search for "leader.

For example, how much do you think a senior vice president of Microsoft who came from McKinsey knows about starting a company?

The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by.

His idea is to get your team together and pretend that your product has failed. That's right: failed, cratered, imploded, or "went aloha oe," as we say in Hawaii. You ask the team to come up with all the reasons why the failure occurred. Then each member has to state one reason until every reason is on a list. The next step is to figure out ways to prevent every reason from occurring.

La dificultad no está en las nuevas ideas, sino en superar las antiguas que, para todos los que hemos sido educados como la mayoría, se ramifican hacia cada rincón de nuestra mente.» John Maynard Keynes

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Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.

Turn bad experiences into something good.

Don't fear the impact of quitting something. What you do after you quit is more important than the fact that you quit. Do you reboot, remake, and restart, or do you give up?

Entrepreneurship is at its best when it alters the future, and it alters the future when it jumps curves.

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.

He told me to set my watch back an hour, since the northern hill country will have no dealings with new-fangled daylight time schemes. As I did so it seemed to me that I was likewise turning the calendar back a century.

The face beside me was twisted almost unrecognisably for a moment, while through the whole body there passed a shivering motion—as if all the bones, organs, muscles, nerves, and glands were readjusting themselves to a radically different posture, set of stresses, and general personality.

relapsing into a bovine, half-amiable normality like that of the other hill-dwellers.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.