Quotes About Adaptation

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

Change is such hard work.

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.

Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life