Quotes About Adaptation

Keep in mind, however, that people are in a state of continual flux. You must not let your ideas about them harden into a set impression. You are continually observing them and bringing your readings of them up to date.

Never take it for granted that your past successes will continue in the future. 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.

There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Otros son capaces de actuar con seguridad y fanfarronería, y a menudo se convierten en líderes. Las personas con habilidades actorales consumadas pueden sortear mejor los complejos entornos sociales y salir adelante.

Familiarity in this existence makes all things tame, for what may seem Terrible or bizarre, when once our eyes have had time to acclimatize

Everything in nature has a structure, a way that the parts relate to one another, which is generally fluid and not so easy to conceptualize.

circumstances never repeat themselves exactly.

In fact, whenever you must learn a new skill or alter your career path later in life, you reconnect with that youthful, adventurous part of yourself.

At a certain point, you can almost become a stranger to yourself.

The past often has elements worth appropriating, qualities that would be foolish to reject out of a need to distinguish yourself.... Making a display of doing things differently from your predecessor can make you seem childish and in fact out of control, unless your actions have a logic of their own.

Por esto, cuando he conseguido una victoria, no vuelvo a emplear la misma táctica otra vez, sino que, respondiendo a las circunstancias, varío mis métodos hasta el infinito. —Sun-tzu (siglo IV a.C.).

These steps are: Deep Observation (The Passive Mode), Skills Acquisition (The Practice Mode), and Experimentation (The Active Mode).

If your orders are vague and halfhearted, by the time they reach the field they will be meaningless. Let people work unsupervised and they will revert to their natural selfishness: they will see in your orders what they want to see, and their behavior will promote their own interests. Unless you adapt your leadership style to the weaknesses of the people in your group, you will almost certainly end up with a break in the chain of command.

When you go into society, leave behind your own ideas and values, and put on the mask that is most appropriate for the group in which you find yourself.

In moving toward mastery, you are bringing your mind closer to reality and to life itself. Anything that is alive is in a continual state of change and movement. The moment that you rest, thinking that you have attained the level you desire, a part of your mind enters a phase of decay. You lose your hard-earned creativity and others begin to sense it. This is a power and intelligence that must be continually renewed or it will die.

Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence. Just keep moving.

siempre se puede decir una cosa de la política: jamás permanece estática. Si los buenos tiempos no duran eternamente, los malos tampoco.

El arte de la vida consiste en saber enfrentarnos a los problemas a medida que surgen en lugar de amargarnos la existencia preocupándonos antes de que aparezcan.

the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require the same food, and are exposed to the same dangers. CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species (1859)

You may object that this was corny, but don't forget that (a) corn sells by the ton, (b) that I only had two weeks to rework an entire manuscript, and (c) that it sure a hell was a lot better than starting with the derivation of the name Lang.

We do not need a Church that will move with the world but a Church that will move the world.

THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO PAPER THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL CARRY NO INVENTORY THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE ENTIRELY DIGITAL THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED

Bone always outlasts feather

It means constantly seeking and implementing better ways of thinking and acting across old and new corners of the system.