Quotes About Adaptation

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity--Bruce Lee

The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth. Be water, my friend.

When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

Ricorda, amico mio, che non è tanto importante quello che ti succede, ma come reagisci agli eventi.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.

The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

Develop the tools, refine the tools, then dissolve the tools.

Running water never grows stale. So you have to keep flowing.

physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life.

Be Like Water

To change with change is the changeless state.

Self-will is the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I hold absolutely sacred—the law in himself, his own "will." What does self-willed mean? Does it not mean "having a will of one's own?" The human herd instinct demands adaptation and subordination—but for his highest honor man elects not the meek, the pusillanimous, the supine, but precisely the self-willed man, the heroes.

Yielding will overcome anything superior to itself; its strength is boundless.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day." -Bruce Mau.

Schools do need to measure, but they also need to move. Moving is more important than measuring. Accordingly

Writer and Internet activist Clay Shirky has noted that "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Here in the early years of our new century, as at the turn of the last, we are once again at war with our "new Americans." As in the last, people will come, will suffer hardship and prejudice, will do battle with the most reactionary forces and hardest hearts of their adopted home and will prove resilient and victorious.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.