Quotes About Adaptation

Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.

Define failure as feedback.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

I never said I knew much. How was I supposed to learn anything living out here? I didn't know enough to do half the things I did in my life. Things happen. You do what you can about them and you see what happens next.

Change can either challenge or threaten us...Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done. If we're dissatisfied, we may go to the other extreme, falling for any and every idea, never pursuing one idea long enough so that it takes root and actually shapes a recognizably new us.

going backwards is not about creating change. It's about understanding.

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.

change is not a one-way street.

Everyone around you has to recognize that you're changing. Relying on other people increases the degree of difficulty exponentially.

Feedback—both the act of giving it and taking it—is our first step in becoming smarter, more mindful about the connection between our environment and our behavior. Feedback teaches us to see our environment as a triggering mechanism. In some cases, the feedback itself is the trigger.

Your people are changing constantly and it's right in front of your eyes. If you don't change accordingly, you may as well be managing with your eyes wide shut. That's the most unforgivable prejudice of all.

If I change I am "inauthentic." Many of us have a misguided belief that how we behave today not only defines us but represents our fixed and constant selves, the authentic us forever. If we change, we are somehow not being true to who we really are. This belief triggers stubbornness. We refuse to adapt our behavior to new situations because "it isn't me.

we go through life grumbling about what should be at the expense of accepting what is

a simple question can trigger a simple response that's appropriate in one environment and completely wrong in another.

We think we are in sync with our environment, but actually it's at war with us.

a changing environment changes us. The

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.