Quotes About Adaptation

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

Predictability can lead to failure.

To lose is not always failure.

The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

Innovation without insight is failure.

Failure to die is always appreciated.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.