Quotes About Adaptation

In a short evolutionary time, we have changed17 from group-living primates skilled at reading each other's every gesture and intention to a solitary species, each one of us preoccupied with our own screen.

Serve the work" is about stewardship. Three of these behaviors are: I take responsibility for our community's and consumers' experience. I am responsible for the energy I bring to situations, so I work to stay positive. I take ownership of adapting to the fast pace of this environment.

Resilience is often a slow unfolding of understanding.

Hope is learned!

You give up a lot when you venture into an environment that you can't control and where your senses don't serve you in dependable ways.

Gender itself is a combination of highly choreographed steps and well-rehearsed compromises.

to cope successfully. This includes elements of unpredictability, uncontrollability, and feeling overloaded.

The Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia is another tremendous resource. Their definitions are very helpful when thinking about grief. I think the most important line is "When a person adapts to a loss grief is not over." It doesn't mean that we're sad the rest of our lives, it means that "grief finds a place" in our lives. Imagine a world in which we honor that place in ourselves and others rather than hiding it, ignoring it, or pretending it doesn't exist.

Voltaire: "Não deixe o perfeito ser o inimigo do bom.

Evolutionary theory suggests that we should embrace all of our emotions, as each has an important role to play under the right circumstances.

there is nothing more uncertain than the creative process, and there is absolutely no innovation without failure.

In the past, jobs were about muscles, now they're about brains, but in the future they'll be about the heart.1 —MINOUCHE SHAFIK, director, London School of Economics

We know how to chameleon our way through the day

When a person adapts to a loss grief is not over." It doesn't mean that we're sad the rest of our lives, it means that "grief finds a place" in our lives.

She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.

I think the most important line is "When a person adapts to a loss grief is not over." It doesn't mean that we're sad the rest of our lives, it means that "grief finds a place" in our lives. Imagine a world in which we honor that place in ourselves and others rather than hiding it, ignoring it, or pretending it doesn't exist because of fear or shame.

Our fight or flight strategies are effective for survival, not for reasoning or connection

Both disappointment and regret arise when an outcome was not what we wanted, counted on, or thought would happen.

With disappointment, we often believe the outcome was out of our control (but we're learning more about how this is

lest she be blown away by a capricious wind.

Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can't take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

Nothing ever stays easy for long.

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.