Quotes About Adaptation

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Change begets change.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.

Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.

You raze the old to raise the new.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Don't lean on the past, learn from it and move on.

Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.