Quotes About Adaptation

Quién está arriba y quién está abajo va a importar cada vez menos en un mundo en el que los que llegan a la cima no permanecen mucho tiempo en ella y cada vez pueden hacer menos cosas con el poder que tienen.

cuando las fronteras se vuelven porosas y la población gobernada —o controlada— es más móvil, a las organizaciones establecidas se les complica mantener su dominio.

La adaptación de los partidos políticos al siglo XXI es una prioridad.

el proceso de apertura política y profundización de la democracia ni es lineal ni es universal. Siempre habrá excepciones y contraejemplos.

unas elecciones perdidas siempre pueden volver a ganarse, pero un cambio de reglas significa una situación completamente nueva.

Empujada por los cambios en la manera de adquirir, usar y retener el poder, la humanidad debe encontrar, y encontrará, nuevas fórmulas para gobernarse

In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose.

To put it simply, power no longer buys as much as it did in the past. In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose. From boardrooms and combat zones to cyberspace, battles for power are as intense as ever, but they are yielding diminishing returns.

las grandes empresas se ven obligadas, por las fuerzas del mercado y las acciones de otros rivales más pequeños, a ser empresas de nicho,

Las universidades más prestigiosas del mundo deben ahora competir con rivales de todas partes.

los cambios que han hecho que el poder sea más fácil de obtener, más complicado de usar y más difícil de conservar.

El poder se está degradando. En pocas palabras, el poder ya no es lo que era.

Power is spreading, and long-established, big players are increasingly being challenged by newer and smaller ones. And those who have power are more constrained in the ways they can use it.

hard to get used to winter. The truth was, she knew she never would. For her, cold and happiness were incompatible.

less so than their predecessors.

The world will not alter for all your meddling.

La nature, d'elle-même, quand nous la laissons faire, se tire doucement du désordre où elle est tombée.

We have changed all that.

Sometimes I feel so awful that my life became better on the backs of all these aborted plans and broken dreams.

Change is a choice. It's long and it's slow.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

Losses may make us feel as if time had stopped. Families may close down, attempting to control those aspects of their world over which they still have some power, since in the one area that really matters --- human relationships --- they have lost a sense of control.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.