Quotes About Adaptation

The rats that had once fouled their food became their food. But soon the rats were gone.

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The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

Whatever goes down, whatever turns up—make food and music and dance and story out of it.

O tempora! O mores! [Oh the times! The customs!]

Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

Create your own permission slip for joy. Write three words: Accept. Adapt. Depend. Carry this permission slip with you. Tell your friends you're working on becoming more content, more joyful. Take a nap. Live with a messy house for a time. Order takeout. File an extension on your taxes. Stare out the window. Linger in the company of a friend. Breathe in the fullness of life. Use those words to fight back with joy.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.

Whatever your personal beliefs and experiences, I invite you to consider that we need a new worldview to navigate this chaotic time. We cannot hope to make sense using our old maps. It won't help to dust them off or reprint them in bold colors. The more we rely on them, the more disoriented we become. They cause us to focus on the wrong things and blind us to what's significant. Using them, we will journey only to greater chaos.

The things we fear most in organisations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

Nothing is ever changed at a single stroke, I know that full well, although a person sometimes wishes it could be otherwise.

The history of American spaceflight is a history of doing less than had been planned, less than had been hoped for.

and after all, if I really wanted the bay to stay totally untouched, I wouldn't be living here myself, would I?" said her mother's voice out in the kitchen. I'd live in the city, and just enjoy the idea of the bay, pure and untouched between bare hills. But we built this house didn't we? We dug into the slope and levelled the space and poured the concrete foundations.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.