#Adaptation Quotes

“My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.”

“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

“As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there.”

“We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.”

“The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.”

“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”

“The tyrant custom, most grave senators,Hath made the flinty and steel couch of warMy thrice-driven bed of down.”

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”

“Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.”

“Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.”

“The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.”

“Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.”

“The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.”

“Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life”

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”

“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”

“"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."”

“It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.”

“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.”

“Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.”

“As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.”

“Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.”

“There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.”

“We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”

“When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.”

“It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago.”

“We change whether we like it or not.”

“For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.”

“There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.”

“The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.”

“It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.”

“Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.”

“Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.”

“The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.”

“Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.”

“The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities.”

“With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.”

“To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent”

“The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.”

“Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.”

“What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.”

“One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.”

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.”

“Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.”

“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”

“The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast.”

“If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.”

“Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.”

“When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.”

“An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.”