Quotes About Adaptation

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'

When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am saying in terms of how I think I'm doing. I'm always searching for the truth of a subject or person, and I look at every meeting as a grand experiment.

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

As a musician, you kinda get used to failure in life, and then when things actually start succeeding, it's a very interesting feeling.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.

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

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Success is often built on the shoulders of failure - from which new configurations emerge.

A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

The beauty of the media business is all about what is next. You put your mistakes behind you. Learn from them and move on to the next project. Having some degree of success is integral to a risk-taking balance.

Defining success is an ongoing challenge.

Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else probably won't work for you.

Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.

When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.

There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.

Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.