Quotes About Adaptation

We certainly wouldn't practise carrying it now: that would be a bit like practising being wet, cold and hungry, which wouldn't achieve anything.

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

If we're going to reach the unchurched, underchurched, dechurched, and postchurched with the gospel in a culture that's trending post-Christian, we must rethink our approach.

We only get one shot at every season of life. Whether or not we learned anything becomes evident in the seasons that follow.

If you want your church to stand the test of time, then you have to be replaced.

What have we fallen in love with that's not as effective as it used to be? What do we love doing that's not really working? What's off limits for discussion? Do we have any "old couches" that need to be thrown out?

It's a shame that so many churches are married to a designed-by-Christians-for-Christians-only culture. A culture in which they talk about the Great Commission, sing about the Great Commission, but refuse to reorganize their churches around the Great Commission.

Leaders must challenge the process precisely because any system will unconsciously conspire to maintain the status quo and prevent change."9 Organizations seek an equilibrium.

Es absurdo pensar que nuestras ideas pueden pasar de una generación a otra. Es igualmente absurdo asumir que nosotros vamos a ser capaces de descubrir intuitivamente la necesidad de cambio en nuestras propias organizaciones.

They have adjusted their style in order to worship with their kids. Shouldn't we be willing to adjust ours to reach their kids?

Keep in mind that everything you loathe about your current environment or organization was originally somebody's good idea.

They say that time change things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The great Powers of the world today as they look at the armaments they have built up, find themselves hopelessly frustrated. If that be the case, what is the use of speaking about first-class, second-class and third-class Powers? That is surely the wrong language to use. It does not comply with contemporary reality. What we have to seek is new ways of being great, new modes of pioneering, new fashions of thought, new means of inspiring and igniting the minds of mankind. We can do so.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Habrá palabras nuevas para la nueva historia y es preciso encontrarlas antes de que sea tarde.

Dont worry if he prefers someone else to you. Its hard to teach a monkey strawberries are sweeter than bananas.

Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.

The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

She was too young, too soft and new, to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short, straight, smooth lines of her own experience.