Quotes About Adaptation

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

The main character of any living system is openness.

For a second, I get a little sad about it. Not the leaving—just the way it seems like the world is always changing, right underneath my feet.

I have to learn to talk like the guys down the Hill. The "cats" down the Hill, that is. I have to be hip.

Me, I'd rather be out in that world than stuck in those closed-up ivy halls that weren't meant to fit me.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Cuando yo es imposible para nosotros cambiar una situacion, el reto es cambiarnos a nosotros mismos.

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Recht en waarheid zijn niet meer universeel. Dat is een ernstig feit, maar we moeten het accepteren.

cool to room temperature.

It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

But one who speaks in a borrowed tongue should be thankful if he can just make himself intelligible.

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

Think about your organization – or that of one of your clients – and ask yourself whether things would be done differently if it was being launched today.

No new world without a new language.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it." – Sir Walter Scott

I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we've set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." ? Joseph Campbell

make expectation parallel with reality.

Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.

We're thankful for the horrors we are used to. The unknown ones are worst