Quotes About Adaptation

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan, if this new plan fails to work, replace it, in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which DOES WORK.

Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

May one refuse to adapt one's self to the LAW OF ECONOMICS?  Certainly! This is a free country, where all men are born with equal rights, including the privilege of ignoring the LAW OF ECONOMICS. What happens then? Well, nothing happens until large numbers of men join forces for the avowed purpose of ignoring the law, and taking what they want by force.

Success in life, no matter what one may call success, is very largely a matter of adaptation to environment in such a manner that there is harmony between the individual and his environment. The palace of a king becomes as a hovel of a peasant if harmony does not abound within its walls. Conversely stated, the hut of a peasant may be made to yield more happiness than that of the mansion of the rich man, if harmony obtains in the former and not in the latter.

Todos os desejos negativos não são nada exceto frustrações de desejos positivos. Eles são inspirados por alguma forma de derrota, fracasso ou negligência por parte dos seres humanos em se adaptarem às leis da natureza de forma positiva.

No two people are exactly alike. This makes it necessary for us to adapt ourselves to others who think and act differently than we do. Our success depends on how well we negotiate our way through these daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

Environment is a personal affair. So, if your present Environment hinders you, walk away from it. Hunt out a new Environment. Men and Women who form the habit of getting things done, make their own Environment, hour by hour — day by day.

entirely. When a merchant finds that a certain line of merchandise is not selling, he usually supplants it with another that is in demand. The person whose business is that of marketing personal services must also be an efficient merchant. If his services do not bring adequate returns in one occupation, he must change to another, where broader opportunities are available.

The measure of a man may be taken very accurately by the extent to which he adapts himself to his environment and makes it his business to accept responsibility for every adversity with which he meets, whether the adversity grows out of a cause within his control or not.

No human being has sufficient foresight to build plans which need no alteration or change.

Opportunity is Everywhere. Think of The Cup. Think of its many Handles. When something comes up that ought to be done but that you don't want to do — DO it. That's a Handle. When something happens that takes you from your planned out Task — have no fear. That's a Handle.

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start.

Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

We grossly overestimate the length of the effect of misfortune on our lives. You think that the loss of your fortune or current position will be devastating, but you are probably wrong. More likely, you will adapt to anything, as you probably did after past misfortunes.

When things go our way we reject the lack of certainty.

If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others.

Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates!

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

There is no intermediate state between ice and water but there is one between life and death: employment.

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....