Quotes About Adaptation

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience.

we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen,

This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence, and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly.

Man can get used to anything, even feeling better.

It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.

He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

Successful entrepreneurs take who they are and what they already know and create surprising combinations.

The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning' ('Truth, Power, Self', 9). Foucault

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We live in a world of accelerating change, where the future is less and less an extrapolation of the past. Change is unrelenting, pitiless, and occasionally shocking.

Only 11 percent of the companies that made up the Fortune 500 in 1955 are on the list today The average age of a company on the S&P 500 Index has fallen from sixty years in the 1950s to less than twenty years currently

Given these dynamics, companies that fall behind tend to stay there.

In a formal hierarchy, the power to initiate change tends to be concentrated at the top. Major pivots require a top-level sign-off. The problem is, by the time an issue is big enough to capture the CEO's scarce attention, the organization is already playing catch-up. Leaders are insulated—organizationally, culturally, and geographically—from the fringes where new trends take shape.

In the age of upheaval, the quantities of foresight and ingenuity required to run a large organization exceed the abilities of any single human being or small team—and the bar keeps going up. Simply put, bureaucratic structures ask more of leaders than they can deliver.

Focus your life on today and tomorrow. The past is done, so move on!

An Allosaurus backbone had a hole in which a Stegosaurus thagomizer fitted perfectly. Over the years, many of the fossil thagomizers that have been dug up have had broken tips.

The highest art of the chessplayer lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do.

Lily Tomlin once said, "The road to success is always under construction.

It's important for you to accept this instead of fighting it. Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola warns us that "anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos." In other words, get used to it and get over it.

mindsets can and do change. Like any other habit, you set your mind to it until the right mindset becomes routine

A new answer usually requires new behavior, so don't be surprised if along the way to sizable success you change in the process. But don't let that stop you.

what consistently works for others will almost always work for us.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." —Will Rogers

How much progress was impeded because man wasn't supposed to breathe underwater, fly through the air, or venture into outer space? Historically, we've done a remarkably poor job of estimating our limits. The