Quotes About Adaptation

As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Everything changed...even the things we didn't want to.

People come and go from our lives all the time. It's not our fault that people leave. The Universe is just making room for new people with new lessons.

I don't usually play games. I got added to one and was played.When I realize the creator I will be the coach, now that I've mastered the game.

Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. We have not outgrown this.

Without a flexible, immediately available, highly regulated stress response, we would die. Remember, the brain is the world's most sophisticated survival organ. All

I was born with the horse and buggy. I die with the space shuttle. What kind of thing is that?" His eyes twinkled. "I live the good life!

We were not sitting in a classroom for eight hours at a stretch. We were not sitting in a cubicle for eight hours at a stretch. If we sat around the Serengeti for eight hours—

Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

There's no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

Concorde fallacy," the conviction that it's less wasteful to keep on throwing money into a failing project than to cut your losses and do something else.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

The great danger of maturation is calcification.

wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves.

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

It made a change in himself, and we must not change ourselves much. We can stand only so many—so few—changes. To know that there were people who he thought were his friends, his good friends, but who were his enemies—that was going to make a change, he knew. When was the last time there had been a change in himself? He thought and thought, rejecting items that were not change but only removal or adornment.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

We had it all. Life was perfect. And then life changed. It always does. When life changes in this way, we can beg and plead to go back to the way things were. Feeling entitled to that reality. Waiting for someone to wave the magic wand and put things back to normal; back to the way life was. Or we can step up, recognize that it is time to move forward from here, and embrace total accountability.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

The next season, the scouts found a still better iceberg, larger and with richer fishing grounds. And though it was tempting to declare that the colony had been subjected to enough change, and should stay forever on their new home, they didn't. They moved again. It was a critical step: not becoming complacent again and not letting up.

There was always some tension between those who thought their role was to keep things in order and those who were urgent about producing necessary changes. But most penguins intuitively understood that you needed both to thrive in this new era.