Quotes About Adaptation

The idea of using extraordinary force does not mean more of the same effort. Extraordinary action results from out-of-the-box thinking.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car found a different point of entry into the same business. Originally a leasing company, it began an entry into rental cars when an enterprising manager at one of its offices began picking up customers for the start of their lease. No one else did that, and that became Enterprise's point of entry.

Do not limit your planning horizon to what can be accomplished with existing tools. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything will look like a nail.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

It's a distillation of all I know about writing: short-story writing, screenwriting, journalism—everything. There is no future in the novel, so far as I can see. I'm trying to show where writing is going to be. I may not get there, but I will point the way." In

People who are car-sick are never sea-sick,' explained Mother.

The bear, I decided, had got to become mine. The dogs and my other animals would soon get used to it and together we could go waltzing over the hillsides.

Adapting to change, then, means going through the stress of withdrawal from the old normality and finding relief when a new normality is established.

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.

PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces. SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1. NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring. RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.

The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology.

If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful

In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

Repeatedly curing a system that can cure itself will eventually create a system that can't.

Rather than fight change, a more sensible approach is to learn to live with it. Or to make a living from it.

the more adapted an organism was to present conditions, the less adaptable it tended to be to unknown future conditions.

Survival requires that we learn to laugh things off and start over

El sentido común nos dice por qué: si no está obteniendo lo que desea, es claro que cualquier cosa que haya realizado hasta este punto no está funcionando.

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.