Quotes About Adaptation

If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness.

That's my dogma. Just borrow any old god-damn religion that happens to be around when you need it and enjoy the pleasure of being with welcoming people. Today, on windy Rocky Ridge beneath a hard blue Wyoming sky, I was a Mormon.

Greatness is not only about what you have or where you are in life but what you do with what you have wherever you find yourself.

You start out with one thing, endup with another, and nothing'slike it used to be, not even the future.

Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.

decline, downsizing, near death, desperation, bet the company, and revival that characterizes so many corporate histories (such as Nokia, IBM, Procter & Gamble, and many others).

So before you let people blunder around reinventing the process every time someone gets the urge to innovate, it makes sense to understand it first.

So even in firms that embrace change and appear to manage it well, there are elements of tremendous stability in their businesses.

allowing an existing structure to remain in place for too long creates inertia and results in an organization that is maladapted to the opportunities it finds.

Organizations have habits. And they will cling to their habits at the expense sometimes of their own survival.

They reallocate resources flexibly and on an ongoing basis, rather than going through sudden divestitures or restructurings.

the ratio of assumptions you have to make relative to knowledge that you possess is high—a different set of disciplines needs to be employed.

that the speed of the new economy has caused people and firms to believe they don't have time to implement tools

A more effective approach in uncertain environments is to allow resources to be invested only when uncertainty is reduced, a core principle of options reasoning.

rather than heavy annual budgeting processes and efficiency-oriented values, the outlier firms invest in increasing their flexibility, even if this might lead to a small degree of

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Avoid constantly trying to adapt to situations, people, and other circumstances that have no value to your future. The phenomenon of always attempting to please and alter behavior is more likely to be unsuccessful then to enhance your life. Adapt by continuing to learn and improve your knowledge

For the most part, people live their normal lives. Except when at parties, in a group or away from home, then a different person emerges.

Adventure is just bad planning.

An die Kälte kann der Mensch sich nicht gewöhnen.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

All around us the world is changing every single second, from the tiniest atom to the hugest star! Our bodies change good into energy, the seasons change, the universe is ever expanding. The laws of nature are governed by change and to go against it is to set yourself against nature itself!