Quotes about Adaptation

She refuses to be a victim of a circumstance she can't fully change. Instead she changes what she can.

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

For the religious spirit is like the flu—it is constantly adapting to the environment.

Have we as a society become radically desensitized to the violence and depravity that is flooding from movie and television studios? It is not that we have become more broad-minded and intellectual; it is that we have adapted to the demonic and have become comfortable in the presence of evil.

If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

The fact that I'd gone through my own transition as governor of Indiana and had been informed by that experience, I think was an asset.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.