Quotes About Adaptation

Few people can claim they are born into the right period of history. Most of us have to make do with the times we find ourselves in.

The Marquis looked very grave and replied, 'I knew, of course, the minute whalebone corsets went out of fashion that things were coming to a pretty pass.

It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.

As the business sage Peter Drucker famously noted " We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend nearly enough time teaching them what to stop.

Another judgment pitfall you may encounter when trying to change a behavior is unconsciously expecting that others will change along with you.

But over time, people can lose their innate ability to fascinate. They acquire layers of boring.

Psychologists suggest that when people are no longer in charge of basic elements of a situation (such as where they sit, or when they go to the restroom), they must give over some degree of control that they normally use to define their independence, and thus themselves.

The reality, however, is that "better" is not better. Better is a mirage. It keeps you chained to the same way of working as your competition. Better is temporary. Better is a flimsy edge that can be toppled in a millisecond by someone with a bigger following, a lower price, a more convenient location, a fancier degree, a shinier award, a newer technology, a more skillful skill. Better is not always better. Sometimes, it's worse.

Whether you're an old or new brand, you can draw on mythology, as long as you present it in a new way.

A million generations after our reptilian brains retreated to the base of our brain stems, fascination continues to be our most basic form of attention. Why? Because fascination, at some level, is based upon survival. And to survive, you must fascinate.

There are certain inevitabilities. You will grow older. You will be forced to compromise in ways you never imagined and confront problems you thought you were immune to. You will find a job, and perhaps lose it. You will fight with your mate, shoulder unwanted responsibilities and cope with rank unfairness. You can allow all that to demoralize you. Or you can let it shape you… and trust that the shape will be more interesting because of it.

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as he would have to learn to be an adult in the world, so would I have to learn to live without him.

People change just in a blink! You won't get any explanation for that. They change in front of your eyes or behind of your eyes. Just they change unconditionally.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me

Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Lo spazio in cui viviamo non è mai 'neutro'. Fu spazio di natura, con le sue continuità e i suoi sconvolgimenti, fino a quando l'uomo prese a imprimervi i propri segni, trasformandolo profondamente a propria somiglianza.

Sarah wasn't even called Sarah yet: she was still going by her birth name Sarai, but that name's warrior vibes didn't suit her and so mostly everyone just called her Sari.

I was glad I'd remembered to shucksify my vocabulary in the company of children.

To get along, go along.

The experience is always different than the plans. The experience was exhausting. I am still exhausted from it.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.