Quotes About Adaptation

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Sweeping and dramatic changes make for good theater, but in real life, they're not effective.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Always clear your mind after a bad play. Learn from your mistakes, but don't dwell on them.

One of the largest problems in getting a new design accepted by an established manufacturer is not just the 'not invented here' syndrome, but also the 'we don't have the tooling' syndrome. Why invent something new when you can simply modify what you have?

It's pretty simple. When people got out of Africa and Asia and reached other parts of the world, all hell broke loose.

el capitalismo es un sistema complejo y adaptativo que ha alcanzado los límites de su capacidad para adaptarse.

Given that dogs and wolves are virtually indistinguishable genetically, the enormous variation in body size and shape in the dog is truly remarkable.

We were doing the best we could with what we had left, and more and more it was like Diogenes tossing away the tin cup because he could drink with his hands. It turns out there is no end to learning what you can do without.

Change me , I whispered, change me .

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

It means that if I don't like the way someone is treating me, I can alter their behavior by first changing my own. I can have a positive influence on the situation.

Since I have, by my behavior, taught them to treat me the way they are treating me, I can often, by changing my behavior, teach them to treat me differently.

I repeatedly tell him that if he wants to feel differently, he has to act differently. He must change his behavior, not hers. I tell him if he changes drastically enough and long enough, she will very likely change. She may temporarily get worse before she gets better, but she will change.

I knew I had to transform Alcoa... But you can't order people to change. That's not how the brain works. So I decided I was going to start by focusing on one thing. If I could start disrupting the habits around one thing, it would spread throughout the entire company

Change has a price tag, sometimes expensive yet easy to pay where there's a will!

Your level of intelligence is not only a measure of what you have learned, but also a measure of how well you can unlearn and re-learn!

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

Every day is a new day, you get to start again, give yourself permission reinvent yourself.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Gin was always so calm around guys. Sandy wished some of that would rub off on her. Obviously, she didn't want all of Gin's habits to rub off, but a few of the useful ones might be nice.

Okay, he thinks, perhaps it's time for everybody to move on; nothing lasts forever, it's part of the physics of friendships, alliances, whatever it might be they perpetrated for a while among themselves.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Yes," Borkas said. "Things changed after you lost Murra. When was that, four years ago now?" Mors nodded. She hadn't heard anyone else say her wife's name in a long time.