Quotes About Adaptation

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.

The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Every great change is simple.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Great changes are easier than small ones.