Quotes About Adaptation

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

I have had a lot of success with failure

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

Children are all foreigners.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.