Quotes About Adaptation

We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto

Like water, it slowed my descent. Like water, it gave me a feeling of buoyancy.

The great joke is that the next time is never like the last time, and yet we can't help readying ourselves for it anyway. This all reminds me of the Mayan conception of the universe.

When a change management fails, leadership change is brought in. A leadership change will always bring in change management

The committed person doesn't play by the rules of the game. He is responsible for the game. If the rules of the game stand in the way of achieving the vision, he will find ways to change the rules.

reflexive loop":

How can we stop going faster while our ability to see further ahead is decreasing?

Shared vision fosters risk taking and experimentation. When people are immersed in a vision, they often don't know how to do it. They run an experiment. They change direction and run another experiment. Everything is an experiment, but there is no ambiguity.

most of the problems faced by humankind concerns [concerned] our inability to grasp and manage the increasingly complex systems of our world.

We are not preparing children for the world we have lived in but for a future that we can barely imagine.

learning organization"—an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

This stone on which the lizard lies was under the sea when lizards first came into being, and now the flood is wearing it away, to return it once again into the oceans.

It is difficult to adjust because I do not know who is adjusting; I am no longer that old person and not yet the new.

Man is modifying the world so fast and so drastically that most animals cannot adapt to the new conditions. In the Himalaya as elsewhere there is a great dying, one infinitely sadder than the Pleistocene extinctions, for man now has the knowledge and the need to save these remnants of his past."1

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

As Steve has said to me on more than one occasion: "The Chinese are the most rational people in the world. Until they aren't.

When the going get's weird, the weird turn pro.

She changed. But then you do, don't you? Otherwise what's the point of getting married? If it doesn't change you, I mean.

where it revealed itself to him, and try not to dwell too much on his failures and losses.

entrepreneurs do not try to avoid errors or surprises. They seek to learn from them, just as chefs often arrive at new recipes through improvisation.

When much is known, procedural planning approaches work perfectly well. When much is unknown, they do not.

No one can take their eye off their core business or responsibilities, but anyone can spend a portion of their time and energies using little bets to discover, test, and improve new ideas.

If the foundations of an ideological position are knocked out from under it, new foundations will be found, or else the ideological position will just hang there, defying the logical equivalent of the laws of gravity.