Quotes About Adaptation

the leader who learns the most wins.

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end

For those showing up as victims each morning, and every day, the future will be very hard, dangerous and frightening because they won't know what hit them. And they'll be absolutely unprotected to deal with the environmental, economic and societal upheaval that is coming.

Innovation always trumps repeating what might have worked in the past

Without innovation, life is death. And only the brave will survive these days.

Innovation Mastery

In the new world of business, the riskiest place you can be is trying to do the same things in the same way as you've always done them. Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.

I am a fundamentally changed person. They wouldn't recognize me.

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. Everything you now find easy you first found difficult. With consistent practice, getting up with the sun will become your new normal. And automatic.

Mistake is a mistake only if you make it twice...

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and so gorgeous at the end.

believe that life favors the prepared mind.

Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end

To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.

hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was more than a methodology. It was an ethos.

What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine. The fleet limbs of the antelope?

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

We'll cry, she said. An then we'll stop. Because it's only a house.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Humans will tend to adopt and retain those elements of culture that appear to produce "better" results, while those that appear to be less rewarding will tend to be discarded.

In literature, it's called plagiarism. In the movies, it's homage.

Break the vicious cycle by refusing to react. Instead of pushing back, sidestep their attack and deflect it against the problem. As in the Oriental martial arts of judo and jujitsu, avoid pitting your strength against theirs directly; instead, use your skill to step aside and turn their strength to your ends. Rather than resisting their force, channel it into exploring interests, inventing options for mutual gain, and searching for independent standards.

The fake is a person who has rebuilt himself, with a view to occupying another social position than the one that would be natural to him.