Quotes About Adaptation

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

None of these modern adaptations is "in the Bible," and yet even the most committed "rulebook Bible" readers out there wind up adapting what the Bible says, because we have to—if we want that ancient text to continue to speak to us today.

reality isn't what it used to be.

Transposing the past is an act of wisdom. It is not scripted. It can't be predicted.

And here is the absolutely vital and life-changing take-home point for us: ancient and ambiguous laws, in order to remain relevant, needed to be adapted—which results in the diversity of the laws we see in the Old Testament.

We perceive God, think about God, and talk about God in ways that make sense to us by virtue of when and where we live.

adapting the past to speak to changing circumstances in the present.

Without its unwavering commitment to adaptation over time, the Bible would have died a quick death over two thousand years ago. Its existence as a source of spiritual truth that transcends specific times and places is made possible by its flexibility and adaptive nature—one of the many paradoxes we need to embrace when it comes to the Bible.

Wisdom is about learning how to work through the unpredictable, uncontrollable messiness of life so you can figure things out on your own in real time.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change.

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.

That's just to start?' 'Yeah.' 'Giu. So what happens after that?' 'Whatever needs to happen. That's the whole point of being strategic.

rationalize that as something else

A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.

I've only been out a few days. I'd forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There's barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up. I've had to run an expanded mentality in the habitat's RI systems just to keep thinking properly; and that hardware isn't exactly young and frisky any more.

The temperature fell. The rain quickened, thinning the clouds, clearing the sky. Evolution began once more.

Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he'd become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me?

But rocks falling on our heads can't happen anymore," Alik insisted. "We're not fucking dumbasses like the dinosaurs; we're here to stay. It's Darwin.

but whereas her contemporaries were thickening out, ready for their century of toil on the land, she remained slim and agile.