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Quotes About Adaptation

One of the keys to my career longevity has been an awareness that there are times you need to humble yourself and simply switch lanes. You need to recognize that there are distinct phases to everything and be ready to embrace the changing phases.
~ Unknown
Don't let trends in the market affect your hustle. As the game changes, you need to move and adapt. If the market suddenly switches up on you, don't get stuck—pivot. In 1999, I got offered the chance to guest star on Law
~ Unknown
so long since my last stint in college, but my aptitude for academics came back to me quickly.
~ Unknown
The purpose of management, leadership, parenting, or governing - any form of organizational leadership - is to solve today's problems and get ready to deal with tomorrow's problems. And that means managing change.
~ Unknown
An organization managed by a Bureaucrat may achieve its goals in spite of its manager because people learn to bypass him. However, the harder the Arsonist tries to manage, the further behind his organization gets. While the Arsonist is busy making everyone else busy, the organization is going nowhere. The Arsonist changes direction too often, and his subordinates do not actually cooperate. The Arsonist fails because an organization cannot constantly change direction.
~ Unknown
The higher the rate of change, the more inter and intra-dis( I) ntegration, and that is expressed in lack of inter and intra-love. Lack of inter-love. What is that? Aggression, hostility toward others.
~ Unknown
Chaos is another name for opportunity
~ I-Ching
Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.
~ Idries Shah
In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.
~ Idries Shah
Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.
~ Idries Shah
Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.
~ Idries Shah
among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
~ Idries Shah
Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.
~ Idries Shah
Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.
~ Idries Shah
You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.
~ Idries Shah
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
~ Idries Shah
The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.
~ Idries Shah
Words have to die if humans are to live.
~ Idries Shah
THE BIRD AND THE WATER A bird which has not heard of fresh water Dips his beak in salt-water year after year. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)
~ Idries Shah
A solved problem is as useful to a man's mind as a broken sword on a battlefield.
~ Idries Shah
No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.
~ Idries Shah
Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.
~ Idries Shah
Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.
~ Idries Shah
Ningún esfuerzo convierte a un cuervo negro en un halcón blanco. Anwar-i-Suhaili
~ Idries Shah