Quotes About Adaptation

The US military's greatest shame is that it today remains a Second Generation force, despite the ready availability of books like Fighting Power that clearly show the superiority of the Third Generation.

During 19th-century wargames, German junior officers routinely received problems that could only be solved by disobeying orders. Orders themselves specified the result to be achieved, but never the method.

How U.S forces conduct themselves after the battle might be as important in Fourth Generation war as how they fight the battle. What the USMC calls cultural intelligence is of vital importance in Fourth Generation war, and it must go down to the lowest rank. In Iraq, the Marines seem to be grasping this much better than the U.S. Army.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill.'" —Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

De eerste is Gerard Walschap, verre vriend en trouwe fan. Schrijver van stavast, geen groot talent voor toneelteksten, des te meer voor krachtig vertellen en stevige polemiek. 'Dag mensen, dat 't welga.' Dat staat in bijna minuscule letters op zijn graf van natuurtegels. Al bij het ingaan van het eerste oorlogsjaar had hij me gewaarschuwd, onder vier ogen en in bedekte termen. 'Doe gelijk iedere Belg al eeuwen doet. Buig mee zonder te buigen.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat axe," said Moses in response to the new challenges. "I'm just going to keep right on building. You do the best you can to stop it.

But now there are no natives – or we're the natives.

The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.

There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.  The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. Daniel Gilbert

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

I had to learn a new way of playing. I had to practice a lot, and just find ways around the limitations. So it was a bad idea to break my hand. You said you were doing a lot of cocaine. Did that affect your songwriting? No. I think it affected my breaking my hand.

El hecho es que el ordenador está aquí para quedarse y los niños saben utilizarlo y nosotros no. Incluso el lenguaje.

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. —DR. ROBERT

That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible. I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.

You're going this way and then shit happens and then you're going that way.

Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there's no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

using parking meters as walking sticks.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.