Quotes About Adaptation

The measure of our wisdom is much more about whether we embrace changing circumstances and accept people who are different from ourselves.

Sharks have millions of years of preprogrammed strategies. Dolphins have cheat codes.

ongoing blackout.

My solution was to make that a feature, not a bug.

The machines won, sister. We're just in denial.

I'm not the same man who went into the woods to find Joe Vik. The experience changed me. I became something different.

You know about the frog and the pot of boiling water?" "That's a myth. They hop out. They always hop out.

She believes that they are caught in an emotional timewarp without the necessary vision to appreciate the changes that have take place in society.

Eventually we become part of our surroundings, and they become part of us.

Perhaps he often thought the same things about me, but was never obvious about it. Why couldn't it be that I was very different now from the girl he had first dated and it wasn't entirely his fault? I was hard in places where I had been soft. I was too cynical and certainly too critical now. I was sure that, at least once a day, he probably looked at me with disappointment and had his second thoughts, too. Or maybe it wasn't anyone's fault; it just was.

It isn't always the fittest who survive, but the people who have the information, those who clock the exits. I could find in relentless occupation what I could never find in helplessness: a way through.

You've got to be a prose professional, get out of bed every morning and say, what is pressing on my nerves? You've got to come out of your trap every morning life you are equal to your times.

In April, Churchill decided he should try to alter his speaking style, to make it less sonorous and Victorian, to avoid sounding pompous to younger listeners. At sixty, he was an old dog to be learning new oratorical tricks

Siempre estoy dispuesto a aprender», diría Churchill en 1952, «aunque no siempre me guste que me den lecciones».

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world,' George Bernard Shaw wrote in 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'; 'the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Sometimes the world's most brilliant ideas don't work. Doesn't make them any less insightful.

I don't know why I have a pattern of running into hand-destroying situations, but that seems to be my lot in life. Maybe I need to figure out how to make magical prosthetics. I should research that later.

If existing management want to keep their jobs when the basics of the business are undergoing profound change, they must adopt an outsider's intellectual objectivity. They must do what they need to do to get through the strategic inflection point unfettered by any emotional attachment to the past. That's what Gordon and I had to do when we figuratively went out the door, stomped out our cigarettes and returned to do the job.

The strategic inflection point is the time to wake up an listen

Are you trying new ideas, new techniques, and new technologies, and I mean personally trying them, not just reading about them? Or are you waiting for others to figure out how they can re-engineer your workplace—and you out of that workplace?

The implication was that either the people in the room needed to change their areas of knowledge and expertise or people themselves needed to be changed

The key to survival is to learn to add more value—and

Compaqs, Dells and Novells each of which emerged from practically nothing to become major corporations. What's the common among these companies is that they all instinctively followed the rules for success in a horizontal industry.

Adapt or die. Some