Quotes About Adaptation

We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

when foreigners used American profanity. The swear words always seemed too big to fit in their mouths and were spit out rather than spoken, like a glob of tough meat they couldn't chew and didn't dare try to swallow.

enjoy such quintessentially Chinese experiences as the Madame Tussauds wax museum, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Sunglass Hut.

also have electricity and running water," Garvey said. "You really are a dinosaur. If you aren't on social media, you might as well be dead.

The future ain't what it used to be - and what's more, it never was.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Political systems that yield inferior economic performance will ultimately be discarded for those that are more productive

I was suffering from culture shock before the phrase was coined

In America, everything seemed fixable, and in Japan, difficult problems were to be endured. Shoganai, shoganai. How many times had he heard those words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes. Book 3, page 456

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Shoganai. Shoganai. That's all I ever hear Book 3, p374

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

the logic of life is continual change, continual motion, continual evolution.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars

Years ago I had a 1-iron I could hit 260 yards through a doorway. Now I can hit it through the keyhole

One under a tree, one under a bush, one under the water.

p.35: Jerry Porras & James Collins. Las compañías más viejas, veteranas, no sólo pueden encontrar un lugar en la nueva economía sino que hasta pueden encabezarla, si han establecido una PODEROSA FILOSOFÍA CORPORATIVA basada en las historias y leyendas de la compañía, que se utilice para ACOSTUMBRAR A TODOS LOS EMPLEADOS A UN MODELO DE COMPORTAMIENTO acorde con esa filosofía.

Change is always a sorry thing