Quotes About Adaptation

There are days when I rather detest living in the year 1867. Everything moves so quickly. Change is happening at such a pace. I preferred the way of life thirty years ago when I was a boy.

Accept the situation in which you find yourself and everything will be so much easier.

DYNAMIC HOMEOSTASIS Dynamic homeostasis means that whenever a part of the system is out of balance, the rest of the members of the system will try to bring it back into balance.

A system that makes no errors is not intelligent.

After several decades of empirical study, Jaques concluded that just as humans differ in intelligence, we differ in our ability to handle time-dependent complexity. We all have a natural time horizon we are comfortable with: what Jaques called "time span of discretion," or the length of the longest task an individual can successfully undertake.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.

Evolution by means of natural selection (or indeed any kind of selection—natural or unnatural) provides the most beautiful, elegant explanation in all of science.

Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence.

But the habit patterns, inevitably, had survived. To the air, with a wry grin, he murmured, "How long, O Lord? How long?" In his private estimation: not long now.

You know, that's what's wrong with us on the public level. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better. Our society is hurtling in free fall toward heaven knows where

The old dos not accept the new. Not, at least, the new that never was old.

The Stone Age didn't end because people ran out of stones. It ended because people kept learning and improving

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." —Jim Rohn

People change when they ... Hurt enough that they have to, Learn enough that they want to, and Receive enough that they are able to.

What's true for a teammate is also true for the leader: If you don't grow, you gotta go.

H. Nelson Jackson said, "I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Leaders who leadershift must be like water. They have to be fluid. Water finds a way, then makes a way.

If you want to be successful as a leader, you need to learn to become comfortable with uncertainty and make shifts continually.

you must be able to take the new thing you've learned today and build upon what you learned yesterday to keep growing.

Errors become mistakes when we perceive them and respond to them incorrectly. Mistakes become failures when we continually respond to them incorrectly.

Leadership is a moving target, and it always will be. If you desire to become a better leader, get comfortable with change. And if you want to lead up, learn to think like a leader. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

Failure isn't failure if you do better the next time.