Quotes About Adaptation

We can make ourselves more resilient by making the world around us supportive.

Your body knows in all its parts, when 'used to' starts, when nothing will ever be the way it's been. Your body knows first. Takes your 'you' weeks to catch up.

A hundred years ago behavior was explained by one shelf of books, now it's explained by a different shelf of books, and in a hundred years they'll explain it differently again.

Great investors conceptualize problems differently than other investors. These investors don't succeed by accessing better information; they succeed by using the information differently than others." Michael J. Mauboussin,

life's business in a fundamentally different way—using a molecule other than DNA or RNA as genetic material, for example, or a different set of amino acids to build proteins.

you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

Careers advance by how well you learn on the job and how well you get along with the rest of the swamp and play its game.

he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

Frank Sinatra was wrong," said David Bossie, one of Trump's longtime political advisers. "If you can make it in New York, you can't necessarily make it in Washington.

increasingly short periods of time—first 1,200 years, then less than 600 years, then less than 125 years, then 50 years.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them....

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

Het nieuwe ontstaat nooit eenvoudigweg door interpolatie van het oude.

De pronto me di cuenta, incómodo, de que pensaba que la sociedad en la que vivía era algo así como un medio natural —digamos una sabana o una jungla— a cuyas leyes había tenido que adaptarme.

Para qué servían los hombres? Puede que en épocas anteriores, cuando había muchos osos, la virilidad desempeñara un papel específico e insustituible, pero hacía siglos que los hombres, evidentemente, ya no servían para casi nada.

All in all, airport shops still form part of the national culture; but a part that is safe, attenuated, and wholly adapted to global consumption. For the traveler at the end of his journey, it is a halfway house, less interesting and less frightening than the rest of the country. I had an inkling that, more and more, the whole world would come to resemble an airport.

Je suis en système libéral Comme un loup dans un terrain vague, Je m'adapte relativement mal J'essaie de ne pas faire de vagues.

Tengo la sensación de ser una rata que abandona el barco. –Las ratas son mamíferos inteligentes –respondió en un tono pausado, casi divertido–. Muy probablemente sobrevivirán al hombre; su sistema social, en todo caso, es mucho más sólido.

changes that are currently taking place in so many sectors. You have to ask yourself: "What are we going to do differently?" Doing nothing is not an option. You can't assume the same clients are going to come to you with the same requests or that you can go to them with the same offerings. You've got to change the way you operate and that requires a focus on innovation.