Quotes About Adaptation

In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture.

Understand: when you enter a new environment, your task is to learn and absorb as much as possible.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. You must cut yourself loose from the past and open your eyes to the present. Your tendency to fight the last war may lead to your final war.

el azar sólo favorece a la mente preparada".

Leonardo ansiaba aprender todas esas habilidades, pero pronto descubrió algo en sí mismo: no podía hacer sencillamente lo que se le encargara; debía convertirlo en algo propio, inventar en vez de imitar al maestro.

Every minute of every day we are aging; every encounter with others alters and shapes our ideas; we are a continuous work in progress, never quite the same. As Heraclitus once said, "You cannot step into the same river twice; it is not the same river, and you are not the same person.

Daily Law: Let go of the past and feel yourself carried along by the stream of life and all the power and energy that it will bring us in its wake.

clave para hacer que tus víctimas se sientan cómodas es ser su reflejo, adaptarse a sus estados de ánimo. Las personas son narcisistas; se sienten atraídas por quienes se parecen más a ellas. Hazles sentir que compartes sus valores y gustos, que comprendes su espíritu, y caerán bajo tu hechizo.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. And the process of learning skills, no matter how virtual, remains the same.

Chess contains the concentrated essence of life: First, because to win you have to be supremely patient and farseeing; and second, because the game is built on patterns, whole sequences of moves that have been played before and will be played again

Accept People as Facts

Instead, see other people as phenomena, as neutral as comets or plants. They simply exist. They come in all varieties, making life rich and interesting. Work with what they give you, instead of resisting and trying to change them.

You will also want a degree of flexibility built into the process. At certain moments you reassess your progress and adjust the various goals as necessary, constantly learning from experience and adapting and improving your original objective.

That is precisely the wrong approach. What makes us go astray in the first place is that we are unattuned to the present moment, insensitive to the circumstances. We are listening to our own thoughts, reacting to things that happened in the past, applying theories and ideas that we digested long ago but that have nothing to do with our predicament in the present. More books, theories, and thinking only make the problem worse.

It can be valuable to analyze what went wrong in the past, but it is far more important to develop the capacity to think in the moment. In that way you will make far fewer mistakes to analyze.

Você precisa adaptar a sua Missão de Vida às novas circunstâncias. Não insista nas formas ultrapassadas de fazer as coisas, ou correrá o risco de ficar para trás, sofrendo as consequências. É preciso ser flexível e se adaptar o tempo todo. Se a mudança lhe for imposta, como aconteceu com Freddie Roach, você deve resistir à tentação de se exaltar ou de sentir pena de si mesmo.

The same should apply to an entrepreneurial venture. Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Change Yourself from within, Little by Little

To go along with this self-control, we must do whatever we can to cultivate a greater memory capacity—one of the most important skills in our technologically oriented environment.

We are entering a world in which we can rely less and less upon the state, the corporation, or family or friends to help and protect us. It is a globalized, harshly competitive environment. We must learn to develop ourselves.

En este mundo no harás nada que valga la pena si no empiezas por desarrollarte y transformarte a ti mismo. ESTRATEGIAS

Esa distancia interior nos fascina. Las estrellas se burlan de sí mismas, ajustan siempre su imagen, la adaptan a los tiempos. Nada es más risible que una imagen que estuvo de moda hace diez años pero que ya no lo está. Las estrellas deben renovar constantemente su lustre, o enfrentarán

When you no longer surprise anyone, you give others the impression that they have found you out. Turn the tables: be deliberately unpredictable.

Desperate to win the French over to the American cause and understanding their nature quite well, he had transformed himself into what they had wanted to see in him—the American version of the French spirit and way of life. He was appealing to their notorious narcissism.