Quotes About Adaptation

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

I think I feel not at home in America, but not necessarily at home outside of America.

Don't get stuck in the past. Celebrate the company's history (heritage), but focus primarily on the present and future (culture).

Embrace personal culture shifts. Look at every experience as something that happens for you, not to you.

If you hate change, then you're really going to hate extinction.

Defend organizational change. Inevitable resistance can be mitigated if the change is carefully discussed, planned, embraced, communicated and ultimately defended.

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels. Doing so literally causes microscopic tears in the muscle fibers. At the end of a training session, functional capacity is diminished. But give the muscle twenty-four to forty-eight hours to recover and it grows stronger and better able to handle the next stimulus.

Chronological age is fixed. Biological age can be modified with training.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

That taught me that there are people for places, places for people. You can do some things and you can't do other things. Don't get all upset about the things you can't do. If you can't do something, pay someone else who can and don't worry about it.

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

We are what circumstances make of us

Change is inevitable. Whether you think it is positive or negative, you are right.

A weed is a plant out of place.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

If life gives you limes make margaritas.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'