Quotes About Adaptation

"No one is perfect – that's why pencils have erasers."

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Fail often. Fail fast. Clean it up. Learn from it. Move on. Repeat.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

The day you stop learning is the day you start dying.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Let go of the past, but keep the lessons it taught you.

Anything you can't control is teaching you how to let go.

One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it's guilt, anger, love, loss, or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've would've happened…or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

"Making movies is like herding cats."

The approach to combat and everyday life should be the same.

"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Success can't be forced.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.