Quotes About Adaptation

Yet few companies make proper use of this opportunity. Instead, the first days on the job often feel more like waterboarding than onboarding: no desk, no computer, no phone, the new boss is traveling, and the first assignment is shadowing an unenthusiastic colleague for two weeks.

Remember, your company is a living organism that needs to survive in an environment that's always changing. To thrive, it has to be able to adapt. Charles Darwin found that survival is determined by the ability to adapt to circumstances.

Charles Darwin found that survival is determined by the ability to adapt to circumstances.

As we see, the priority stays with creatively changing the situation that causes us to suffer. But the superiority goes to the "know-how to suffer," if need be.

When we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. _________ Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

One becomes gradually accustomed to poison.

It's not enough to abolish abuse; custom must also be transformed. The mill was pulled down, but the wind still blows.

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy.

To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.

Si eres piedra, sé imán; si eres planta; sé sensitiva; si eres hombre, sé amor.

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.

There can be no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is right they should, on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Cuando se acordaba de sus opiniones anteriores, que eran sólo de ayer y que, no obstante, le parecían ya tan antiguas, se indignaba y sonreía.

Il passaggio da bovaro a carmelitano non ha nulla di stridente: si passa dall'uno all'altro senza gran fatica. Il fondo comune d'ignoranza del villaggio e del convento è una base che mette il contadino allo stesso livello del frate; tenete un po' più grande il gabbano, ed avrete un saio.

Oui, les brutalités du progrès s'appellent révolutions. Quand elles sont finies, on reconnaît ceci : que le genre humain a été rudoyé, mais qu'il a marché. Le

Il faut être mangeant ou mangé.