Quotes About Adaptation

You must shape the vision to the land, not the land to the vision.

We all know that change is hard, but we don't know enough about why it is so hard and what we can do about it.

Instead of regarding them as things that just need to go away, we look at the behaviors as a precious resource, valuable information that can be mined to develop a more satisfying picture of what may really be happening. Another

Like the two other DDOs, Next Jump challenges employees by moving them into roles for which they're not yet prepared to succeed and then provides them with steady streams of feedback to help them grow into those roles. In all three companies, if you're completely able to perform your role, it's no longer the right role for you; it has no 'stretch' left.

Okay, I'll move the lawn chairs. (Axel)

Balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot.

D'you know, Georgie, he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'.

There were more preposterous vicissitudes in life than a single philosophy could conjure.

The slightest alteration can cause dramatic changes. That's what happened to you. The damage was physical. It's as though blocks were rearranged, the physical structure no longer what it was.

One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things.

Well, kid, Aahz said, sweeping me with an appraising stare, it looks like we're stuck with each other. The setup isn't ideal, but it's what we've got. Time to bite the bullet and play with the cards we're dealt. You do know what cards are, don't you? Of course, I said, slightly wounded. Good. What's a bullet?

It is amazing how the world can change, he thought, during the life span of a fruitcake.

An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results.

I survive mainly by pleasing others. You do that to get out. To get out you figure out what they want you to say and then you say it with as much skill and originality as possible and then, if they're convinced, you get out.

When any distribution is locked into a rigid sequential format it develops Joes that dictate what new changes will be allowed and what will not, and that rigidity is deadly.

Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.

After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong.

Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration's programs, "We'll just try them…and if they don't work…why then we'll just try something else.

We're living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences.

We're living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences. I've heard it said that the only real learning results from hang-ups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you already know.

Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble is that the expansion has to be made at the roots, not at the branches, and that's what makes it hard to see.

We love stress that is mild and transient and occurs in a benevolent context.

In other cases the challenge is to appreciate how, though human physiology resembles that of other species, we use the physiology in novel ways.