Quotes About Adaptation

Para ellos no puede cambiar nada, porque ellos mismos no pueden ya cambiar.

Like all true transformations, it was as slow and gentle as the growth of a plant.

?nsan hep yeni bir ?eyler al?rsa, can? s?k?lmaz.

Nic se neztrácí, vÅ¡echno se prom??uje.

Jules Verne's protagonist Phileas Fogg burned his ship's furniture for fuel to reach Liverpool on his way around the world in 80 days. There is no Liverpool within reach for today's big ad agencies.

This is an industry that no longer reflects strategically how to create value in the face of disruptive change.

Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible.

life is a continuous exercise is creative problem solving

Mental toughness is possessing, understanding, and being able to utilize a set of psychological skills that allow the effective, and even maximal execution or adaptation, and persistence of decision-making and physical and tactical skills learned in training and by experience.

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

But how many people lighted the path for me? That's the evolution of basketball. There's no way I could have played the way I played if I didn't watch David Thompson and guys prior to me. There's no way Kobe could have played the way he's played without watching me play. So, you know, that's the evolution of basketball. You cannot change that.

martial people, however, it was not long before Maori began to use muskets in inter-tribal

Like colonisers elsewhere, the East Polynesian ancestors and their immediate descendants had learned, by trial and error and committing some major mistakes, to turn New Zealand's natural and environmental conditions to human advantage (how many people perished, one wonders, in the search for a safe

A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life… . He is not one of them… . In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of my English self, and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes, and destroyed it all for me. At the same time I could not sincerely take on the Arab skin: it was an affectation only.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgrading. Otherwise you're fucked.

Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don't know," said

If you've got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

That's all right," says Billy. "We're blending what we see but we aren't allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see.

The expression "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" actually isn't usually true for human beings. It is for bacteria, however.

if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo.

rather than selling people on some change, you were better off identifying the reasons for their resistance, and addressing those. Imagine

The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed to its failures—which was, perhaps, why there had been so many more conspicuous failures.