Quotes About Adaptation

Willpower is the caveman approach to life.

When [God] is moving you toward a new consciousness, you need to recognize the winds of change at once, move with them instead of clinging to what is already gone.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

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small batches of work, small teams, short cycles, and quick feedback—in effect, "small everything.

We found in surveys of Agile teams that some 80 percent to 90 percent of Agile teams perceive tension between the way the Agile team is run and the way the whole organization is run. In half of those cases, the tension was "serious.

If you are thinking about Agile as a set of tools and processes, you're looking for the wrong thing. You can't go to the store and "buy some Agile management.

Many firms fail to see that since generally all organizations have access to the same rapidly evolving technology, competitive advantage flows not from the technology itself but rather from the agility with which organizations understand and adapt the technology to meet customers' real needs.

In other words, firms don't have to be "born Agile," like Spotify. Even big, old firms can undertake an Agile transformation if they set their minds and hearts to it—and stick with it.

The client gets to see the next iteration of the system every three weeks, instead of waiting five years for one "big bang" delivery.

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

It all happened," Lipton summed up, "because Shifty saw a tree almost a mile away that hadn't been there the day before.

When there are no more frontiers you make your own

What "Terra Nova" means, all the articles are proud to reveal, is "New World." What one of the incoming residents said, kind of famously, was that when there are no more frontiers, you have to make them yourself, don't you?

What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.

Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his.

You really named her 'Linnea'?" "Linnea's a survivor." "She dies in every movie." "Her characters do, but she goes from movie to movie," Letha says. "She never dies.

We spend so much effort trying to make things square or whatever, and nature just does what it does.

The various forms that have emerged over the lifetime of Gaia are innovations designed to maintain homeodynamis and to carry out the ecological functions that help it to do so.

The truth is much different. Bacteria literally analyze the antibiotics that they encounter and generate responses to them. They actually remake their genome in order to alter their physical form. And this solution? It is passed on to their descendants. In essence, this is the passing on of acquired characteristics, something Lamarck insisted was possible and that neo-Darwinians have ridiculed ever since.

At such a moment, the molecules have combined into a system that is self-organized. A phase change occurs. Something more than the sum of the parts has come into being. And . . . it just happens. Like water turning into ice. And you can't predict what the system will look like after the phase change. For