Quotes About Adaptation

although life happens and tragedies ensue, love has the ability to adapt. Somehow love is flexible and strong enough to step up to the challenges it faces. When we encounter distressing situations, love has a deep reservoir we may not see but we can still draw from.

Our response to change consists of emotions, attitudes, and actions.

We can't go back, Ann," I said. "All we can do is try to make the future different. I would like to propose a six-month experiment.

If we are to communicate effectively across cultural lines, we must learn the language of those with whom we wish to communicate.

Relinquishing my hopes of getting a nap

Change your focus and you just might change your relationship.

circumstances. — Katherine A. Fuller —

They'll know we are transformed when our behavior truly changes. — James Stuart Bell

all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

There's no such thing as "sustaining" leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.

Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

the most important question for any organization is this: Are we changing as fast as the world around us? For most organizations, the answer is no.

Right now, your company has 21st-century Internet-enabled business processes, mid-20th-century management processes, all built atop 19th-century management principles.

a different result requires doing something different.

What's natural eventually turns inward to bring stability, but then the church becomes so stable that no one wants to grow anymore. People begin to guard the structure and programs already in place, so it is difficult to close out an older ministry, let alone start a new one.

We can't educate today's students for tomorrow's challenges with yesterday's schools.

why would we want to freeze the system and disable our students by getting them perfectly ready for yesterday, when we know they will have to move headlong into a very different tomorrow? Every one of those students needs to be ready for life outside the trenches.

We have a choice. We can simply defend what we have or create what we need.

He was not the same. The plane passing changed him, the disappointment cut him down and made him new. He was not the same and would never be again like he had been. That was one of the true things, the new things. And the other one was that he would not die, he would not let death in again.

Maybe it was always that way, discoveries happened because they needed to happen.

I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat.

A person can do practically anything for a short time if he doesn't think he has to do it for life.