Quotes About Adaptation

Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.

Both 'Saturday Church' and 'Pose' are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life.

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

What has happened to America's survival instincts?

For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.

When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now.

I've come to learn from my own experiences and those around me that it's not about survival of the fittest but about who can adapt the best to change.

When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.

To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

I was very shy and had low self-esteem; the only way to stop yourself getting beaten up was to turn your hand to being an idiot. At the beginning, it was survival, and after that, it became second nature.

I'm absolutely an amoeba. It's my survival value.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.