Quotes About Adaptation

When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

It's not your job to change the world, or the people around you. It's your job to go with the flow inside of the Universe, and to celebrate it inside the world that exists.

I realised that everyone present resented the loss of the Hall as much as my father had done. It represented the passing of an old way of life, of the security of knowing one's place. I found it very touching.

We just have to make the best of things and be happy with what we've got.

Slowly, things were getting back to normal. The problem was, normal didn't feel so good anymore.

Let the past inform your future, but not define it.

Estoy convencido de que nunca nos sucede nada que no hayamos previsto, nada para lo que no estemos preparados. Nos han tocado malos tiempos, como a todos los hombres, y hay que aprender a vivir sin ilusiones

Ou seja, total capitulação da empresa à força da greve. A empresa começa com cara de Rambo e termina com jeitinho de Clodovil.

El punto es que el mundo no está cambiando, sino que ya cambió, y despreciar lo nuevo es la cosa más vieja de todas

Druids always pick the hard way; it encourages natural selection.

Even if we wanted to remake higher education," assert professors and administrators alike, "we don't think there is anything that can replace what we already have." Of course, the fact that in the past everyone claimed "this time is different," does not rule out the possibility that this time really is different.

The Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz once said, "The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

discovered a new position for intercourse (turned out to be a minor variation on Old Hundredth; Freddie snorted and shook his carrotty curls) to a recipe for chocolate sour cream waffles in cannabis sauce.

There is no reason why pragmatists steeped in Darwinism should not be reactionary or conservative, and so it is no surprise that some have been.

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

T)his is precisely the importance of the world-view described in the Book of Changes: there is no situation without a way out. All situations are stages of change. Therefore, even when things are most difficult we can plant the seed for a new situation that will preserve within itself the present situation, though we must be capable of adapting and finding the proper attitude.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Reframing is also the pivotal element in the creative process: it is the ability to put a commonplace event in a new frame that is useful or enjoyable.

Turn frustration into fascination.

Listen. We are on a flight from Jerusalem to Antioch with a change at Schiphol. Whatever the destination, there is always a change at Schiphol.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over.