Quotes About Adaptation

What is 'healthy' for one dominant ego-image at a particular stage of life may be decidedly unhealthy for the nascent ego-image of the next stage of life.

Judaism: A Modern Movement with an Ancient Past

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

Research is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

They cut the menu from twenty-five items to nine, featuring hamburgers and cheeseburgers, and they made the burgers a little smaller—ten hamburgers from one pound of meat instead of eight.

When I was at Oldsmobile," he said, "there was something I learned that I've never forgotten. There was an old guy there who was an engineer, and he had been at GM a long time, and he gave me some advice. He told me, whatever you do, don't let GM do it first." That was it, Davis thought later—the Detroit line, the symbol of the protected industry. Don't let GM do it first, let the other guy make the early, expensive mistakes.

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not

Mr. Ford, here is our new plant," Lord Perry, who was the head of Ford in Europe, said proudly. "Where is the water?" the old man asked. "There isn't any water," Lord Perry replied. "Well, let's get out of here," Ford said. "I don't even want to look at it." That had ended the ceremony. Ford had driven off, and they had torn down the plant and moved it to a deep-water site.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

His failure to adapt to new techniques, to pander (his own word), probably made his supporters love him all the more, and probably also narrowed his political base.

If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.

With the whole world in economic recession, a new approach was called for.

When you yet to do 100% of what somebody wants, you need a perfect match, and it's pretty rare that you have a perfect match between what you thought people needed and what they actually need. If you try instead to do 80 percent of what they need, there's a pretty good chance you'll hit a sweet spot.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Empires may rise and fall; liberty and slavery succeed alternately; ignorance and knowledge give place to each other; but the cherry-tree will still remain in the woods of Greece, Spain, and Italy, and will never be affected by the revolutions of human society.

He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.

The Old Testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawned all the religions. So when you are looking for the original meaning of Genesis and the story of Adam you have to go back to the Sumerian accounts to see how the story has been doctored. Genesis says that 'God' (the gods) created the first man, Adam, out of 'dust from the ground' and then used a rib of Adam to create Eve, the first woman.

Life was about improvisation. The scripted operations were the ones that usually went wrong.

The industry is aging!

TODAY IS GROUNDHOG DAY.2 Perhaps now it's better known for the movie 3 of the same name. Here is my ironic Groundhog day resolution… I will continue to do what I've always done, while expecting things to improve and the outcome to change!

David J. Anderson