Quotes About Adaptation

See yourself relaxing in your humility, being yourself—and thus ready to jump to the second curve. But you still do have to jump.

It means a big life transition, and as we all know, transitions can be hard. So that's where we need to turn our attention next: making the jump.

There is a falling tide to life, the transition from fluid to crystallized intelligence.

Luther successfully jumped onto his second curve after he stopped adding and started chipping away. As he succinctly puts it, "I am loving my life.

hold your success lightly—be ready to change as your abilities change. Even if your worldly prestige falls, lean into the changes.

Allowing that change to happen and developing our inner life helps us get onto the second curve.

Stein's law," named after the famous economist Herbert Stein from the 1970s: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

So what are you going to do about it? There are really only three doors you can go through here: 1. You can deny the facts and rage against decline—setting yourself up for frustration and disappointment. 2. You can shrug and give in to decline—and experience your aging as an unavoidable tragedy. 3. You can accept that what got you to this point won't work to get you into the future—that you need to build some new strengths and skills.

She doesn't live in the past. Many other stars have not fared so well.

1. You can deny the facts and rage against decline—setting yourself up for frustration and disappointment. 2. You can shrug and give in to decline—and experience your aging as an unavoidable tragedy. 3. You can accept that what got you to this point won't work to get you into the future—that you need to build some new strengths and skills.

These attachments must be chipped away to make it possible to jump onto the second curve.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python.

Social media isn't as quaint as it was when I started my Livejournal back in high school.

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

Every goalkeeper has their own strong points and qualities. What I like to do is focus on every keeper. You can pick bits out of every keeper where they are particularly strong, and you can learn from things like that.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

I'm not saying I've become institutionalised at Manchester United but my qualities have been at Manchester United.

I think I've played a lot in the Premier League and now I can bring my qualities that I've learned to Italy, and that is something I am looking forward to.