Quotes About Adaptation

Today, almost half of our engineers company-wide are developing software—a massive change from years past.

An organization that is adept at constantly evolving usually won't need to take enormous risks to bring about revolutionary change, because it'll have been changing all along.

Too many leaders expect their people to adapt to their particular leadership style. If you want the best performance, look beyond your style and provide feedback tailored to the individual.

Understand the significance of mind-set and culture. If the mind-set doesn't change, operations won't change either.

We are designed to outgrow everything

can't fix the roof when it's raining, and when the sun comes out the roof don't leak no more. The

If you can't do something about a situation, there's no point in worrying about it.

Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way.

Shift from modern nuclear family to the postmodern permeable family.

I was a normal guy who got sent to Iraq and became crazy, so they sent me back to America to become sane, and now it's America that's driving me crazy.

Let's talk about habituation

Incapacidad de lograr objetivos y decidir. Dificultad para enfrentar cambios. Incapacidad de trabajar en equipo. Mal manejo de relaciones interpersonales.

Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.

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Rhythms are relations between what you believe and what you believed before.

Surely we all dealt with and reconciled ourselves to a life many of whose features were out of our control. It was part of living in a world full of other people with other interests.

Sounds kind of ad hoc and jerry-rigged and haphazard.' 'Everybody's a critic. This wasn't an aesthetic endeavor.

There was the matter of the withered-looking and bradyauxetic arms, which just as in a hair-raising case of Volkmann's contracture 115 curled out in front of his thorax in magiscule S's and were usable for rudimentary knifeless eating and slapping at doorknobs until they sort of turned just enough and doors could be kicked open and

the ideas of ravacious herds of feral domesticated housepets and oversized insects not only taking over the abandoned homes of relocated Americans but actually setting up house and keeping them in model repair and impressive equity

What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?

A question, doctor, he said. Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese? He smiled coolly. Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?

teach you how to accept your nonacceptance

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed. —Frank Bidart, "Borges and I

we get old like animals. We get claws, the shape of our face is the shape of our skull, our lips retreat back from big teeth like we're baring to snarl. Sharp, snarling, old: who should wonder at how nobody cares if I hurt, except another snarler?