Quotes about Adaptation

How we respond to what happens to us—especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over—is a creative

When you do crash and burn, ask yourself lots of questions about whatever it is that happened: What can you learn here? How will you see things differently moving forward? Why did I do that? leads to, What have I learned? leads to, How will I do it differently in the future?

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Door in the Dark: In going from room to room in the dark, I reached out blindly to save my face, But neglected, however lightly, to lace My fingers and close my arms in an arc. A slim door got in past my guard, And hit me a blow in the head so hard I had my native simile jarred. So people and things don't pair any more With what they used to pair with before.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

You can change everything about your business by changing your thinking about your business.

Relationships are two layers of conversations. Adapting and also speaking your mind.

Don't try to steer the river.

Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.

But it is your self that must constantly be transforming. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.