Quotes About Adaptation

As you go through life, you're gonna find out what I found, sometimes the hard way, that you're never too old to learn, that you can teach an old dog new tricks.

L'Homme a arrêté son évolution après avoir inventé la roue et l'air climatisé.

Any organization's competitiveness, ability to adapt, and culture arise from the routines and habits by which the people in the organization conduct themselves every day. It is an issue of human behavior.

Toyota cree firmemente que son las rutinas organizacionales para la mejora y la adaptación, y no los objetivos cuantitativos/económico-financieros, las que definen la ruta hacia la ventaja competitiva y a la supervivencia organizacional a largo plazo.

A través del ajuste de lo que se aprende a lo largo del camino, Toyota avanza como lo haría un científico. Con cada nueva constatación empírica, el científico ajusta el rumbo para aprovecharse de lo que ha aprendido. Aprendo cada día lo que necesito saber para hacer el trabajo de mañana. Explicación del historiador ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE relativa a su alta productividad Nada en el horizonte puede tener una

definición fija. Cada paso que damos altera el horizonte, modifica el campo de visión, haciendo que veamos como algo bastante diferente lo que hasta entonces habíamos visto de forma restringida. JAMES P. CARSE, profesor emérito, Universidad de Nueva York Los planes son cosas que cambian FUJIO CHO, presidente de Toyota Motor Corporation

Everybody's born to do a certain thing and if you're dead jimmy you've found it. And if you're good at something, just keep doing it until you're fed up...then do something else. look.. You're here to make babies and look after the place. You know ? (Billy Connolly) Spoken Word on Spiritual city: -Off of Glastonbury Song

Ach, messer, niech pan nie sÅ'ucha tej biednej kobiety! W owej suterenie ju? od dawna mieszka ktoÅ› inny, a w ogóle to siÄ™ nie zdarza, ?eby cokolwiek znowu byÅ'o tak, jak ju? byÅ'o.

I become as easily accustomed to grief as to joy, and my life grows emptier day by day.

Da, ?ovek može da se navikne i na fijuk metaka, to jest da skriva nehoti?ne otkucaje srca. -?uo sam, naprotiv, da je za poneke stare ratnike ta muzika ?ak prijatna. -Razume se, ako ho?ete, to je prijatno; ali ipak samo zato što srce kuca ja?e.

I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he happens to be living. I know not whether this mental quality is deserving of censure or commendation, but it proves the incredible pliancy of his mind and the presence of that clear common sense which pardons evil wherever it sees that evil is inevitable or impossible of annihilation.

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

We won't understand a thing about human life if we persist in avoiding the most obvious fact: that a reality no longer is what it was when it was; it cannot be reconstructed.

life is like weeds

to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.

Everyone is wrong about the future.

En cuanto hay alguien que observe nuestra actuación, nos adaptamos, queriendo o sin querer, a los ojos que nos miran y ya nada de lo que hacemos es verdad.

Conversation with his wife was easy, Danish having turned into a private jargon for themselves. But with other people he was always conscious of choosing his words, constructing a sentence, watching his accent. It seemed to him that when Danes talked they were running nimbly, while he was trudging along behind, lugging a twenty-kilo load.

o essencial no romance é aquilo que não pode ser dito senão por um romance, em toda adaptação só fica o que não é essencial

Ainsi m'étais-je petit à petit habitué au fait que ma vie avait perdu sa continuité, qu'elle m'était tombée des mains et qu'il ne me resterait plus qu'à commencer enfin à être, même dans mon for intérieur, là où je me trouvais réellement et sans appel.

Para Sabina, vivir en la verdad, no mentirse a uno mismo ni mentir a los demas, solo es posible en el supuesto de que vivamos sin publico. En cuanto hay alguien que observe nuestra actuacion, nos adaptamos, queriendo o sin querer, a los ojos que nos miran y ya nada de lo que hacemos es verdad.

A emigração é difícil também do ponto de vista puramente pessoal: pensa-se sempre na dor da nostalgia; mas o que é pior é a dor da alienação; o termo alemão die Entfremdung exprime melhor o que quero designar: o processo ao longo do qual o que nos for próximo se tornou estranho.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.