Quotes About Adaptation

Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn't think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

An extreme, rapid forcing may suddenly drive the climate system into some unanticipated, radically different state to which it is virtually impossible to adapt. Such a catastrophic climate surprise could occur through a changing climate setting off a series of positive feedbacks—for

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past." —Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

unhappiness was something you got used to or something that passed.

Well, life isn't always what one likes.

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The older I grow, the more I understand what the burned woman meant. Things I was able to walk through unscathed in my youth would mark me for life or damage me beyond repair now. Things I once shrugged off without thought would now bring about my collapse. I was much more flexible in both mind and body as a youth. I could absorb the impact and roll with the punches.

Becoming nothing and no one was something she knew how to do.

Don't think outside the box. Go box shopping. Keep trying on one after another until you find the one that catalyzes your thinking. A good box is like a lane marker on the highway. It's a constraint that liberates.

Feral cats have markings that will allow them to hide among the plants and grasses.

Cats have the largest eyes of any mammal.

If you catch a lizard, its tail might fall off its body.]

Cats' whiskers are not only to make them look pretty, they are their radar system. Because the whiskers are sensitive, they notify the cat if a gap is too narrow. If the whiskers can get through a gap, so can the cat.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

It's no longer the big fish eating the small fish—it's the fast fish eating the slow fish.

You tell them that you're doing this not because you want to save money on office space but because this is how their generation likes to work.

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." —Henry S. Haskins3

Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.