Quotes About Adaptation

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

Change brings opportunity.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

Old words are reborn with new faces.