Quotes About Adaptation

Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something—brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct—effects movement.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

No lloremos nunca sobre la leche derramada

Rather than saying "you failed," say "the project failed.

Not everything I wrote yesterday appeals to me today.

In a flash, I realized I had brought all this miser on myself by trying to fit myself into a pattern to which I did not conform.

I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer. Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn't think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or a grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?

Remember the old proverb: "By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

So she decided on a different approach.

You cannot step in the same river twice. The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today

The opportunities are endless if they are embraced.

The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change.

Be willing to have it so," he said, because"… acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Old ways of doing things cease to be effective, though they may have been very powerful in the past. There arises a very real danger that we will set ourselves in opposition to what God truly is doing now and aims to do in the future.

Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

soldier into a live man. The part of you that does not like it is the part that is still tin."13

Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change, and when we are right, make us easy to live with!

They have long chosen the strategy of selectively resisting their feelings instead of that of not having them—of simply changing or replacing them.

A human figure approaching, filling itself in slowly, putting on age and sex and race, like items of clothing

Nothing in Christianity is original.

Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's Technology

The human body is amazing, she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.