Quotes About Adaptation

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Admit it, you're probably a very different person at work than you are at home. Everyone needs to be someone else sometimes.

There's no graduating from this kind of education, couples just keep growing and changing until they either break up or die.

The future is never fair. Just inevitable.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess. And everything awful used to be something good.

I have that feeling, which I have had often in Chile, that while human beings can make efforts to control, tame and use this place, clearing forests, marking boundaries, their influence here is only transitory.

These days, we can be whatever we want to be. The apocalypse is sort of freeing, don't you think?

Anyhow, I believe that there comes a day when you have to burn your bridges just to make sure you can still swim. What if you can't? Then you either learn real fastlike or you drown. And I don't plan on drownin' no time soon.

Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit

Let's see you reconstitute yourself from dogshit!

I know it sounds strange but it's true. I mean that you're open to life. You're open to being surprised. You're open to being changed by life. Most of us lose that quality in our twenties. I don't know how you've managed to hang on to it, but you have." The music was loud, and the people were loud.

You got to figure out how to eat your snack while your elbows are touching. You got to learn how to twist your little plastic utensil.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Rule: Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

Everything is learnable, and what others have learned, you can learn as well.

Continually upgrade your skills in your key result areas. Remember, however good you are today, your knowledge and skills are becoming obsolete at a rapid rate. As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, "Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

a algunas personas las cosas les van mejor porque hacen las cosas de un modo diferente

Sólo hacían las cosas de otro modo, y yo también podía aprender

Resolve to be a master of change rather than being the victim of change

To ensure that your life stays on a trajectory of increasing success, your goal should be to become a master of change rather than a victim of change.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, after the successful invasion of Normandy in World War II, was asked about the detailed planning process that went into the invasion. He said, "The plans were useless, but the planning was indispensable.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. THEODORE ROOSEVELT