Quotes About Adaptation

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. —CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

We haven't been in Afghanistan for ten years. We've been in Afghanistan one year, ten times.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

We change, whether we like it or not

A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

Adopt the pace of nature.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Execution requires a comprehensive understanding of a business, its people, and its environment.

Execution not only ensures efficient use of resources in a credit and cash-starved world, but also provides the feedback loop needed for the business to adjust to changes—big or small—in the external world.

If you happen to be born into an Indian family, an Indian family from the Caribbean, migratory, never certain of the terrain, that's how life falls down around you. It's close and thick and sheltering, its ugly and violent secrets locked inside the family walls. The outside encroaches, but the ramparts are strong, and once you leave it you have no shelter and no ready skills for finding a different one. I found that out after years of trying.

what is now in the past was once in the future'. There

Lathi goli khayenge, phir bhi Bambai layenge

Life is all about Re-Inventing Yourself, so that you can rejoice every moment, just un-learn and let-go of the past and no sooner you do it, you stay afresh and are born again!"

You never FAIL, you either loose interest in what you pursue or move on to something that ignites Passion in YOU!

Your audience change according to your performance!

Your audience change according to your performance, while your performance varies according to your mood! So regret not, go with the flow.

The past was read-only.

Like Einstein, Kade thought. The problems we currently face can't be solved at the level of thinking that created them.

The problems we currently face can't be solved at the level of thinking that created them.

Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100 000 elevator.

Before Mina, my life was like a complicated jigsaw puzzle. Mina's come along and pushed the puzzle upside down onto the floor. I have to start all over again, figuring out where the pieces go. But some of the pieces to the puzzle don't seem to fit the way they used to. The thought terrifies me.