Quotes About Adaptation

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B. F. Skinner

The unchanging element is change—

Effective students and creative innovators regularly strive to uncover the unintended consequences of a lesson learned or a new idea.

The readiness with which men accustom themselves, as matters of course, to improvements in their condition, which, when anticipated, seemed to leave nothing more to be desired, could not be more strikingly illustrated. What reflection could be better calculated to moderate the enthusiasm of reformers who count for their reward on the lively gratitude of future ages!

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves.

IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things.

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And I once heard Mr. William Hunt, who is one of the first artists, say to a class of teachers, "I shall not try to adapt myself to your various lines of teaching. I will tell you the best things I know, and you may make the adaptations.

The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.

When the horse is dead, get off.

Fire in the lake: the image of Revolution.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans.

My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal.

Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.