Quotes About Adaptation

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

The inside story on a man was that if he wanted to be successful, he must become a rugged individualist, but then should make some adjustments.

Time doesn't heal, it accommodates.

Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.

That's the true mark of a champion—forgetting the last victory and preparing for the next one. And that one comment should be on every coach's wall: The first job that we have today is putting yesterday aside to be remembered later. (Tony LaRussa, World Series Champion 2011)

The mark of success, or failure, in handling victory is what happens the next time out.

I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it."  Pablo Picasso.

contingencies

different era." "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

No matter how much we plan, how well trained and prepared we are, there is always an element of chaos.

Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.

It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others. —Fernando Pessoa

Mattis had a general operating philosophy which he articulated many times over the years: "You don't always control your circumstances, but you can control your response.

If a problem can't be solved easily, make it bigger

Esper had not learned how to play the necessary politics that went with the job of being Trump's secretary of defense.

This is going to be fun, Bannon thought, as Mattis made the case that the organizing principles of the past were still workable and necessary. There it was—the beating heart of the problem, Bannon thought.

But overlooked was that Trump had a way of appearing to strengthen his own hand by creating a situation, often risky, that did not previously exist. Threatening the volatile North Korean regime with nuclear weapons was unthinkable, but he had done it. It turned out to be only the beginning. The go-along, get-along presidency of the past was over.

Before doesn't matter anymore. Life is what it is. There's no room for dreams.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

A tradition that doesn't have to be an imitation of something but a continuation, a branching out more than anything. One would have to conceive of tradition as something living, something that's continually changing and enriching itself through that change.

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one's slant accordingly—at least once every ten years. The great heroic devotion to one point of view is very alien to me—it's a lack of humility. Mayakovsky killed himself because his pride would not be reconciled with something new happening within himself—or around him.

If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change.

Do not fear failure. Do more than is required of you. Make your plans fit the circumstances. There is only one type of discipline—perfect discipline.

Other tissues that begin to adapt to the stretching process include the ligaments, tendons, fascia, skin, and scar tissue.