Quotes about Adaptation

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

If American business is going to prevail, and be competitive, we're going to have to get accustomed to the idea that business conditions change, and that survivors have to adapt to those changing conditions. Business is a competitive endeavor, and job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

you keep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did work but that you keep thinking might work this time. Once you've had enough and you can't do it

T]horoughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung, Stages of Life

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Contextualization is about showing the relevance of the gospel, not making the gospel relevant. That's the essence of contextualization.