Quotes About Adaptation

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

Life is about moving, it's about change. And when things stop doing that they're dead.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

When I can't build a cathedral, I build a bridge to get there.

A particular personality trait that doesn't come easily to everyone will be needed in a lot of situations: the ability to handle or maybe just ignore the ongoing appearance of stressful situations.

Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

Teach but never try to change people because sometimes they change back.

route, one you hadn't planned on taking. You may not make it exactly at the time you thought you would reach your destination because of unforeseen variables.

For years, I didn't understand this rule of life. I was always resisting change. I used to be so stubborn that a house would have to burn down to get me out of it. Now I know better. I'm glad to say that I have become sensitive to when it's time to move on. I can read the signs, whether they're obvious or subtle, and usually get going without needing to experience heaviness or turmoil.

Everybody is dealt a different hand, but you have to do what you have with your hand.

We live in different times. I would not have described London as a city of gun-toters but that was when Londoners still said sorry when you knock them over and called cappuccinos fluffy coffees & policemen, bobbies!

What he needed was a metaphorical Bobbit job

The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise.

The society is interested only in fitting every individual into its framework and maintaining its continuity.

You cannot progress beyond you current state, with the same thoughts and actions and that brought you there.

Climate risk teaches us that the nation is not the centre of the world.

Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The reflexes of interest to Piaget are distinguished from simple reflexes (e.g., sneezing reflex) in that they change as a result of experience and thus have a history (OI, p. 40).

Organs are supple and capable of adapting to different situations and domains. Finally, they are open to development, and this is precisely what "stable systems" (Case, 1992a, p. 5) are not. But organs are much more complex than such systems, and it is much more difficult to understand them.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.

If you don't create change, change will create you

If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.