Quotes About Adaptation

Water is what it is, and does what it does. It can overwhelm, but it's not overwhelmed. It can be still, but it is not impatient. It can be forced to change course, but it is not frustrated.

Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is.

Alvin Toffler

A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one.

When change is required, there must be trust that the initiatives for that change will be dealt with appropriately.

In karate there is an image that's used to define the position of perfect readiness: "mind like water." Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm. It doesn't overreact or underreact.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem; we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.—Eric Hoffer

It takes more energy than most people realize to unhook out of one set of behaviors and get into another kind of rhythm and tool set.

Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year. I

Organizations are now almost universally in morph mode, with ever-changing goals, products, partners, customers, markets, technologies, and owners. These all, by necessity, shake up structures, forms, roles, and accountabilities.

At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?

Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year.

What's the first level of focus when the stuff hits the fan? Action! Work harder! Overtime! More people! Get busier! And a lot of stressed-out people are thrown at the situation.

There's no end to evolution.

There is real happiness to be gained from being able to distinguish between things that cannot be changed and things that should be changed.

She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field.

Life is what it is, Will. You take it as it comes.

There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough.

She would soon have somewhere to go. It was always important to keep going. Stationary objects tended to get run over.

You take life as it comes at you, and it's rarely perfect.

she hadn't accounted for.

You really have changed, Eddie. What gives?" "The way I had been caused me to lose what was most important to me. Now, I could have been an idiot and doubled down on that. But I decided to use my brain and change how I was conducting myself. Because if you keep doing the same thing over and over, how can you expect a different result?

if you don't grow, you wither

saw it coming. See, they built me too good. They didn't figure in