Quotes About Adaptation

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Forget about plan "B" I'm now on plan "Z"

Life isn't always the way it's suppose to be, it's the way it is.

Life's not fair . . . get over it.

One man's trash ends up another man's wife.

Sometimes life sucks . . . get use to it.

You'll have to forgive me, I went to public school.

How odd, then, that so much of the recent debate over getting more women into leadership positions has focused on encouraging them to mimic the maladaptive behaviours of ambitious men. Do you really want to ask women to replicate a broken model?

if organizations want leaders to drive change, they would be well advised to hire moderate misfits rather than candidates who are a perfect fit for the current culture. A carbon copy of the rest of the team could perpetuate rather than disrupt the status quo. At the same time, hiring people who are radically different will rarely generate the desired change. More likely, these leaders would end up disrupting only themselves.

Be not the first by whom the new is tried nor the last to set the old aside.

We have hot and cold running water where we live . . . Hot in the Summer and Cold in the Winter!

Some say that Weesaceechak left this continent when the white man came. We believe she/he is still here among us - albeit a little the worse for ear and tear - having assumed other guises. Without the continued presence of this extraordinary figure, the core of Indian culture would be gone forever.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The world is moving so fast, if you get stuck on what I call the sort of hard shoulder of nostalgia, the world is just going to pass you by.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

What was it about white men that caused them to plant grass in places where grass couldn't possibly grow without them fiddling with it all the time?

need for a younger, less sophisticated

was not a Navajo concept, this idea of adjusting nature to human needs. The Navajo adjusted himself to remain in harmony with the universe. When nature withheld the rain, the Navajo sought the pattern of this phenomenon—as he sought the pattern of all things-to find its beauty and live in harmony with it.

make the deer come out where you could shoot them. But maybe the kangaroo rats

We like to say "I changed my mind," but the human mind alters its direction so rapidly and constantly, we might as well say "My mind changed me.

It's the price of rootlessness. Motion sickness. The only cure: to keep moving.

If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of chaos. Without his skin he will be dismantled, lose coherence and die. Have you, my little serpents, a new skin?

Gadzooks! We've jumped out of the frying pan and into another frying pan!

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.