Quotes About Adaptation

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Success is a project that's always under construction.

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

There is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success.

Success depends on our using, and not opposing.

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new way of success before the old way fails.