Quotes About Adaptation

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.

I appear to have had more comebacks than Status Quo.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.

As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the same office and instant-message each other? Why don't you just walk over?' That's the perfect example of how ingrained the status quo is. To certain people, it may seem lazy, but I would argue it's much more efficient and considerate.

I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has come from the bad boy to being the status quo, really.

Keep at it, always be thinking about it, always be developing, always try to grow and learn more - and never stay in one place.

You can't stay who you are... Things change and you have to be able to adapt.

Of course you learn from certain moments, and you always get more and more experience, so maybe in the future you will do some different things, but in general, the basics always stay the same.

There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

I stay close to my identity - that's something I find important - but I don't completely shut myself off from the outside world.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

Nothing can stay great forever, and nothing can stay horrible forever.

Unless you stay focused on innovation, you can be disintermediated.

To play a match between Boca and River in Madrid, it's weird. But as a player, it is important to stay focused on the match.

I wasn't going to be able to re-grow my ACL back overnight. I was where I was with this and I just had to accept it. I had to stay focused on getting back. Honestly, I kind of felt in a weird way lucky because it was 12 years into my career that this happened.