Quotes About Adaptation

When change happened to an individual, it happened to everyone around her - sometimes in ways she wished for, though sometimes in ways she wished against" Lynnie p 228-229

Management is the art of maintaining direction while managing chaos. Joan Giesecke1

Sometimes, when things are confusing, we try and make sense of it our own way; we find ways of coping up.

Oh, Stephen, Stephen, get used to the world -- it's a horrible place full of horrible people, but it's all there is, and we live in it, don't we? So we've just got to do as the world does, my Stephen.

she was like some curious, primitive thing conceived in a turbulent age of transition.

If I could be who you wanted, all the time

Stay calm," the mayor said, though it was unnecessary. They were calm, resigned to the storms that had, over these months, worn them thin. How fast a new normal took hold.

He should have remembered that particular joy of small-town life before he moved back. Everywhere a guy turned, he stumbled over hot, steaming piles of history.

a bend in the road is not the end, unless you fail to make the turn.

it's depressing what a man can get used to

You could become anyone, including your real self.

Circusleute und Nomaden sind verwandt. Sie schlagen nie tiefe,, langsam wachsende Wurzeln wie eine Eiche, sondern zauberhafte Luftwurzeln, die in jeder Umgebung eine Heimat finden und sich überall ausbreiten können. Und mit einer nur den Nomaden eigenen Leichtigkeit verlassen sie jeden noch so vertrauten ort wieder, als wären sie nie dagewesen. Sicher tragen sie bei jedem Abschied Wunden davon, doch nie sind die tödlich wie bei einer ausgerissenen Eiche.

It involves considerable change, and change is risky. But as India develops, not changing is even riskier. We have to keep what is good about our system, of which there is a tremendous amount, even while acting differently where warranted.

Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed, because the natural human tendency is to do more of the same and to serve existing clients and needs well, past relationships can be positively detrimental.

Apart from the added efficiency, the willingness to be ruthless helps innovation. Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed,

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Who has no house now will not build him one.

We're never single-minded, unperplexed, like migratory birds.

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.

Play the game, but don't believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

I put on several different outfits. The advantage of not knowing who you are is you can attempt to be all things to all men … or women. My mother saw me always glancing in every mirror, every window; in the gleaming blades of knives. She said, "Jill is vain." She did not know I was looking to see who would be there this time.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.