Quotes About Adaptation

Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

Orrin Woodward relates this principle to people who claim to have thirty years of work experience, when actually in many cases, they merely have one year of experience thirty times over.

A lot of network admins have put off learning IPv6, which is a huge mistake. Even if it doesn't impact your current career, you're definitely limiting your future prospects if you aren't strong with IPv6 – and you're strengthening your prospects when you are!

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

There's a saying: "Life is first draft". Means you pretty much make it up as you go along, and there's never a chance for a rewrite.

Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types: I can't rely on E,D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.

To survive, you must look good or talk even better

I learned your language and I learned your rules. I am more like you than me now.

I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.

I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.

This sounded to me like a three-cocktail problem and there I was without so much as an olive!

We all make mistakes. That's why your pencil has an eraser. - John Ceepak

Your history doesn't matter, defining yourself in the present does as that will change your future

Teachings are given to different men under different circumstances and in different times... [but] ...the Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. If a parent commands a little child not to play with matches, and then commands a teenager to light the campfire, is this a contradiction? It's only a question of preparedness - one is ready and one is not.

El cambio, el choque de culturas, la creciente escala de todo y la complejidad no van a desaparecer sino a acelerarse. Las organizaciones exitosas han entendido a golpes que la actitud de actuar como si nada estuviera pasando ya no les va a funcionar. Nosotros tenemos que darnos cuenta de que a nosotros tampoco.

Sí, tenemos que tomar decisiones difíciles, hacer las cosas bien y adaptarnos a un mundo siempre cambiante, como lo hacen las mejores compañías; pero también tenemos que encontrar paz y satisfacción al darnos cuenta de la grandeza a la cual somos llamados como seres humanos.

El tiempo de las soluciones fáciles se acabó, porque las soluciones fáciles han fallado.

Leaders make themselves and others comfortable in a changing world. They eagerly explore new ideas, approaches, and cultures rather than shrink defensively from what lurks around life's next corner. Anchored by nonnegotiable principles and values, they cultivate the "indifference" that allows them to adapt confidently.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Healthy individuals focus their energies where they can exert positive influence; they don't squander energy in fruitless lament over what they cannot control or change.

Los ejecutivos actuales viven con menos claridad y ninguna certeza a largo plazo; los competidores, los clientes e incluso las principales líneas de productos pueden cambiar radicalmente en pocos años. Como resultado, las compañías y sus ejecutivos deben hacerse hoy preguntas que en otro tiempo hubieran parecido estúpidas y poco plausibles: ¿quiénes somos?, ¿qué estamos tratando de lograr?

Un mundo implacablemente cambiante nos fuerza no solo a adaptarnos y a ser flexibles, sino a confrontar preguntas fundamentales sobre nuestra identidad.

Cómo crearon los jesuitas la compañía religiosa de más éxito en la historia? ¿Y cómo llegan los individuos a ser líderes hoy? Conociéndose a sí mismos. Innovando para amoldarse a un mundo cambiante. Amando al prójimo. Apuntando muy alto y más lejos.

Las organizaciones exitosas han entendido a golpes que la actitud de actuar como si nada estuviera pasando ya no les va a funcionar.