Quotes About Adaptation

I haven't turned into Richard Harding Davis.

But most of us, for most of our lives, do not try to determine the causes of things. Rather, most of the time we try to get by; to eat, sleep, and of course, to reproduce. In other words, we are mainly concerned with surviving, getting along in a complex and changing world, in short, with adapting rather than with interference.

When things need to change, think S.C.A.M.P.E.R. -- coined by Bob Eberle:

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

All right,' said Pooley, 'as panic is clearly ill-received hereabouts, what do we do?

Learning is Problem Solving and Problem Solving is Learning

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Either you acknowledge reality and use it to your benefit, or it will automatically work against you.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

Our ability to connect with customers is harder than ever. Carla and Robert show why marketing is no longer 'business as usual,' and it's time that marketing took a broader and more strategic role in leading the charge." —Kathy Button Bell, Chief Marketing Officer, Emerson

When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, hi religion, we had better make certain to replace it with SOMETHING OF VALUE

yet to learn that they were no longer the same human beings I had once known. In

We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant stimuli, subliminal information, and internal forces we don't know a thing about.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

Consider misunderstood loss as a derailment. When you understand impermanence, when you understand that change is truly the only constant in a space-time continuum, then you understand that such losses come and go.

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder MIT Media Labs

Many people do not yet realize it, but the modern car is as much a contextual tool as a smart phone is—only a lot bigger.

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

When you have a project, do it exactly as you see fit; then fit the facts around the event, not the other way around.

Overhead, a Hawk was zeroing in on a watchbird. The armored murder machine had learned a lot in a few days. Its sole function was to kill. At present it was impelled toward a certain type of living organism, metallic like itself. But the Hawk had just discovered that there were other types of living organisms, too— Which had to be murdered.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

That Indian was stuck. From living in one place and eating the white man's food, he'd gotten weak. Flour, sugar, biscuits—none of that stuff can keep you going for long. You need meat in the winter, good fresh meat with plenty of fat on it. But there wasn't any meat around, at least not nearby. The white man had chased it away and the Indian, not being a hunter anymore, didn't have the strength to go any long distance for it.