Quotes About Adaptation

Cus D'Amato, Mike Tyson's legendary first trainer, famously said: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

En el entorno equivocado, la creatividad se resiente.

Don't call it a problem if you can avoid it.

When something goes badly, I don't automatically assume I did something wrong. Instead I ask myself, "What policy was I following that produced this bad outcome, and do I still expect that policy to give the best results overall, occasional bad outcomes notwithstanding?" If yes, then carry on!

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Si intentas predecir lo que interesará [al público] y haces contorsiones para adaptarte a esas expectativas

As Bruce Lee said, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." THE

Sometimes, whether in the world of fire-making or cooking, finding the path of least resistance is as easy as Googling "backward," "upside-down," or "reverse," plus whatever skill you're deconstructing.

Rather, it's the ongoing practice of looking and learning, of facing fears and altering habits, of cultivating a new fascination in people and places.

Changing on the Job.

Dvorak siempre ha batido a QWERTY.

and forward thinker. Genome, The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, The Rational Optimist—they're all great.

Si no llegas el primero a la mente de los compradores, no pierdas la esperanza. Busca una nueva categoría en la que puedas ser el primero. No es tan difícil como puede parecer.

Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

Our relationships will never work according to our plan

Nothing is more obvious than the need for change. Nothing is less obvious than what needs to change and how that change happens.

My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

Sometimes the right scent is the one that seems all wrong. Sometimes a woman goes into a perfume shop seeking adaptation. Or metamorphosis. Or an outright lie. if you can convince a client just a little bit, he'll convince himself the rest of the way. He wants so much to believe. Faith. It's vital in both thievery and perfume. Perfume was the most exquisite fraud of all - a pretty little bottle of cheap fixings and alcohol that you sold for at least triple its worth.

I love this idea of the states being this laboratory of democracy where we try things out in one state, and if it works, we take it someplace else…But if you're going to do that, you actually have to take what those successful states did. Not just a piece of it. All the hard parts. (from The Economist article "The reading wars" 6/12/2021)

Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

At the very beginning, anticipatory obedience means adapting instinctively, without reflecting, to a new situation.

Words written in one situation make sense only in that context. The very act of removing them from their historical moment and dropping them in another is an act of falsification.