Quotes About Adaptation

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

reality is always plural and mutable.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Innovation is an unruly thing. There will be some ideas that don't get caught in your cup. But that's not what the game is about. The game is what you catch, not what you spill.

civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

Actually he wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For some obscure reason, a central distinction had been lost as the years eroded the accurate version of his statement to mean something entirely different and, upon close inspection, entirely silly.44

As the stimuli saturating our lives continue to grow more intricate and variable, we will have to depend increasingly on our shortcuts to handle them all.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Or, at least, so goes a frequently heard quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Weathermen pay price for nature's curve balls

A wise business executive once said that in order to "grow as a leader" a person must feel "a strong will to modify the environment to make it better, then create challenging situations that (he or she) can't get out of except by changing.

You've got to want to change, know how to change, and give yourself the chance to change.1

They will commit to reversing the vicious cycle even if that means living less comfortably.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, they turn 15.

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.