Quotes about Adaptation

The greatest enemy of tomorrow's success is yesterday's success.

If you've done something for one year—look at it carefully. If you've done it for two years—look at it with suspicion. If you've done it for five years—stop looking at it and do something to change it.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

First we form habits, but then our habits form us.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Willing to pay the price to be a perpetual learner.

Pragmatism allows a person to take things that others would consider problems or distractions and see them as opportunities.

We should work on changing ourselves before trying to improve others. A great danger to good leadership is the temptation to try to change others without first making changes to yourself.

Change alone doesn't bring growth but you cannot have growth without change.

Get out of your normal environment today with someone you lead.

When I'm swimming with the tide, my progress has little to do with the speed and strength of my strokes. It is determined by how fast the tide is moving. Swim with it and you make fast progress. Swim against it and you move very slowly, no matter how hard you work at it.

You need to make changes in yourself and your environment, don't dwell on your past. You can't change it. Don't worry about your future. You can't control it. Focus on the current moment and what you can do now.