Quotes About Adaptation

As training age advances, that paradigm has to shift and the overload has to come from intensity.

It is not a matter of functional or nonfunctional; rather it is an understanding of how functional a particular movement or exercise is relative to the training objective.

focus on the efficiency and interaction of the systems rather than try to target one system for development.

Get them off the Internet and stop them from looking for shortcuts. The human body does not adapt any faster than it did 30 years ago, so why should we expect performance gains to be accomplished faster today?

change only one variable at a time. The goal is a functional program, not confusion.

Constant evaluation should lead to change in order to improve.

There are no straight lines in nature or business.

Temporary measures (as introduced by governments) are never temporary; they invariably become permanent.

The human body has not had time to adapt to the demands of the new world and nor has it had time to learn to differentiate between situations which are genuinely threatening and which require a physical response and situations which are simply worrying and for which a physical response would probably be harmful.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

How long must a fish study to understand human motivation?

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.

There was an old Qeng Ho saying, "You know you've stayed too long when you start using the locals' calendar.

A thousand million times, castle technologies had fallen to things like cannon; why should her world be different?

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

Hexapodia as the key insight

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.

The message for business people contemplating their place in cyberspace is simple and direct: get linked or get lost.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you're upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new.

Why does so much of life have to be about letting go?

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.